Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum

by Marcia Brennan

Book Overview

How prominent curator and author James Johnson Sweeney cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art.

Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point for engagement with metaphysics and mysticism, but no book until now has traced a similar strategy on the part of curators. In Curating Consciousness, Marcia Brennan focuses on one of the transformational figures of twentieth-century curatorial culture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518090
• ISBN13: 9780262518093
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher