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Artists Reflect Essay by Kynaston McShine. ~Foreword by Glenn D Lowry. Artists Include: Vito Acconci, Eve Arnold, Michael Asher, Lothar Baumgarten, Barbara Bloom, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff, Anne Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Cornell, Jan Dibbets, Lutz Dille, Marcel Duchamp, Kate Ericson, Elliot Erwitt, Larry Fink, Andrea Fraser, General Idea, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Komar and Melamid, Louise Lawler, Jac Leirner, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, El Lissitzky, Allan McCollum, Vik Muniz, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, amongst others. Since public museums came into being in the late 18th century, artists have looked upon them with a mixture of reverence, complicity, suspicion, and disdain. In The Museum as Muse, artists of many persuasions speak their minds about museums, their functions and spaces, their practices and politics, and their relationship to the art they contain. More than 60 artists are represented by a wide range of works: photographs of museum patrons by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Elliot Erwitt; "personal museums" and "cabinets of curiosities" by Charles Wilson Peale, Marcel Duchamp, and Claes Oldenburg; fantasies of the destruction or transformation of museums by Hubert Robert, Ed Ruscha, and Christo; and more, including works created especially for this project by contemporary artists, and an anthology of statements and writings by artists about museums. This volume was published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
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