From Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting Since the 1600s by Merewether, Charles

From Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting Since the 1600s

Author: Charles MerewetherPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 284Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.30h x 6.23w x 0.87dISBN: 9789819790791About the...
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Author: Charles Merewether
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From Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting Since the 1600s by Merewether, Charles

From Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting Since the 1600s

€76,81

From Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting Since the 1600s

€76,81
Author: Charles Merewether
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Author: Charles Merewether
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/05/2024
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.23w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9789819790791

About the Author

Charles Merewether, born in Edinburgh, received his BA (literature) and PhD in art history at the University of Sydney. He taught European modernism at the Universities of Sydney (1981-84), Universidad Iberoeramericana, Mexico City (1986-88), and Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona. He received a research fellowship from Yale University (1991), was Inaugural Curator for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, (1991-1994), Curator at the Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles (1994-2003) and taught at the University of Southern California. He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Biennale (2004-2006), Deputy Director of the Cultural District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi (2007), Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, (2010-2013), Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014) and Baptist University, Hong Kong (2015). He was Curator of Contemporary Art, National Art Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia (2016-2019). His books include: In the Sphere of the Soviets (2021), State of Play: Art in Georgia 1985-2000 (2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki (2013) and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008), He was co-editor of After the Event (2010), editor of both Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, (2007) and The Archive (2006).


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