| Description |
195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Collecting the new : a historical introduction / Bruce Altshuler -- The right to be wrong / Howard N. Fox -- To have and to hold / Robert Storr -- 9 minutes 45 seconds / Jeffrey Weiss -- Breaking down categories : print rooms, drawing departments, and the museum / Christophe Cherix -- Keeping time : on collecting film and video art in the museum / Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch -- Collecting new-media art : just like anything else, only different / Steve Dietz -- Beyond the "authentic-exotic" : collecting contemporary Asian art in the twenty-first century / Vishakha N. Desai -- The unconscious museum : collecting contemporary African art without knowing it / Pamela McClusky -- The accidental tourist : American collections of Latin American art / Gabriel Perez-Barreiro -- Collecting the art of African-Americans at the Studio Museum in Harlem : positioning the "new" from the perspective of the past / Lowery Stokes Sims |
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The challenges of conserving contemporary art / Glenn Wharton |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Collectors and collecting -- United States.
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Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Collectors and collecting -- United States.
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Art museums -- Collection management -- United States.
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| Author |
Altshuler, Bruce.
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| LC no. |
2004057051 |
| ISBN |
0691119406 cloth alkaline paper |
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