Curating consciousness :

Brennan, Marcia.

Curating consciousness : mysticism and the modern museum / Marcia Brennan. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. - xi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modernism's mystical subjects: an introduction -- The nude descending a flowchart: Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and Marcel Duchamp -- Seeing the one "less seen": James Johnson Sweeney, in light of Marcel Duchamp -- Blood miracles and fire magic: the transmutational arts of Alberto Burri -- Illuminating the void, displaying the vision: Pierre Soulages -- Studies in self-creation and creative destruction: Jean Tinguely -- "A spark of light darting through empty space": Eduardo Chillida.

9780262013789 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262013789 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2009015566

GBA9C2519 bnb

015442344 Uk


Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-1986.


Mysticism and art.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Art museums--Exhibitions.

N72.M85 / B74 2010

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