Curating consciousness : mysticism and the modern museum / Marcia Brennan.

By: Brennan, MarciaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010Description: xi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780262013789 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0262013789 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-1986 | Mysticism and art | Modernism (Aesthetics) | Art museums -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 701/.17 LOC classification: N72.M85 | B74 2010
Contents:
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.
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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.

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