{"product_id":"museum-highlights-paperback","title":"Museum Highlights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrea Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays, criticism, and performance scripts written between 1985 and 2003 by an artist whose artistic practice investigates and reveals the social structures of art and its institutions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to \u003ci\u003eMuseum Highlights\u003c\/i\u003e, is able to \"trigger a social mechanism, a sort of \u003ci\u003emachine infernale\u003c\/i\u003e whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself.\" It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique--as in a performance piece in which she leads a tour as a museum docent and describes the men's room in the same elevated language that she uses to describe seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Influenced by the interdisciplinarity of postmodernism, Fraser's interventionist art draws on four primary artistic and intellectual frameworks--institutional critique, with its site-specific examination of cultural context; performance; feminism, with its investigation of identity formation; and Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. Fraser's writings form an integral part of her artistic practice, and this collection of texts written between 1985 and 2003--including the performance script for the docent's tour that gives the book its title--both documents and represents her work. The writings in \u003ci\u003eMuseum Highlights\u003c\/i\u003e are arranged to reflect different aspects of Fraser's artistic practice. They include essays that trace the development of critical \"artistic practice\" as cultural resistance; performance scripts that explore art institutions and the public sphere; and texts that explore the ambivalent relationship of art to the economic and political interests of its time. The final piece, \"Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao),\" reflects on the role of museums in an era of globalization. Among the book's 30 illustrations are stills from performance pieces, some never before published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.62 x 7.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162030018695,"sku":"9780262562300","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a7c545f4f0d80007113763b98de7386b.webp?v=1733286009","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/museum-highlights-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}