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Still Life
Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum
Fernando DomĂnguez Rubio
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Still Life
Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum
Fernando DomĂnguez Rubio
Ă propos de ce livre
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternalâor should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that conservators, curators, registrars, and exhibition designers dealing with contemporary art face on a daily basis. In Still Life, Fernando DomĂnguez Rubio delves into one of the most important museums of the world, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, to explore the day-to-day dilemmas that museum workers face when the immortal artworks that we see in the exhibition room reveal themselves to be slowly unfolding disasters. Still Life offers a fascinating and detailed ethnographic account of what it takes to prevent these disasters from happening. Going behind the scenes at MoMA, DomĂnguez Rubio provides a rare view of the vast technological apparatusâfrom climatic infrastructures and storage facilities, to conservation labs and machine roomsâand teams of workersâfrom conservators and engineers to guards and couriersâwho fight to hold artworks still.As MoMA reopens after a massive expansion and rearranging of its space and collections, Still Life not only offers a much-needed account of the spaces, actors, and forms of labor traditionally left out of the main narratives of art, but it also offers a timely meditation on how far we, as a society, are willing to go to keep the things we value from disappearing into oblivion.