Object, Event, Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity Since The 1960s

Hölling, Hanna Barbara (ed.) (2021). Object, Event, Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity Since The 1960s Cultural Histories of the Material World. New York: Bard Graduate Center

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Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms—such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components—that pose a new set of questions about what art actually is, both physically and conceptually. For conservators, this raises an existential challenge when considering what elements of these artworks can and should be preserved. This provocative volume revisits the traditional notions of conservation and museum collecting that developed over the centuries to suit a conception of art as static, fixed, and permanent objects. Conservators and museums increasingly struggle with issues of conservation for works created from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century that are unstable over time. The contributors ask what it means to conserve artworks that fundamentally address and embody the notion of change and, through this questioning, guide us to reevaluate the meaning of art, of objects, and of materiality itself. Object—Event—Performance considers a selection of post-1960s artworks that have all been chosen for their instability, changeability, performance elements, and processes that pose questions about their relationship to conservation practices. This volume will be a welcome resource on contemporary conservation for art historians, scholars of dance and theater studies, curators, and conservators.

Item Type:	Book (Edited Volume)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture
Name:	Hölling, Hanna Barbara0000-0002-3063-4405
Subjects:	A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NB Sculpture N Fine Arts > ND Painting N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
ISBN:	9781941792223
Series:	Cultural Histories of the Material World
Publisher:	Bard Graduate Center
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hanna Barbara Hölling
Date Deposited:	27 Jul 2021 13:25
Last Modified:	15 Aug 2022 14:03
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/15157