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Absent Museum

Manuel Borja-Villel

2017224 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2017
first published
  • 2017Yale University Press · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780300229141

The Absent Museum' is a large thematic exhibition that explores the absence of museums in public debates today. What relation can exist between historical awareness and aesthetic commitment? How can artists maintain the tension between globalisation's paradoxes and history's turbulences, and their individual sensibilities and voices? Works and new productions by around 49 artists - both contemporary and those active in the recent past - map what is at stake for museums and the societies that inspire them.

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