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Radical museology, or, What's 'contemporary' in museums of contemporary art?

by Claire Bishop, Dan Perjovschi

Examining how three European museums of contemporary art have responded to funding cuts, this book outlines a dialectical approach to collection displays that analyses the past to understand the present.

Accession 8268 ISBN 9783863353643 Publisher Koenig Books
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