Best of
Museums

1985

Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space


Brian O'Doherty - 1985
    They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated—the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar. With an introduction by Thomas McEvilley and a brilliantly cogent afterword by its author, Brian O'Doherty once again leads us on the perilous journey to center to the art world: Inside the White Cube.

The Complete Guide To Boston's Freedom Trail


Charles Bahne - 1985
    Walk along Bostons famous Freedom trail with this for great details on the sites.

The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting


Gervase Jackson-Stops - 1985
    An illustrated guide to the rules, techniques and strategy of chess from the basic elements of the game to professional play.

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections


Marie C. Malaro - 1985
    This second edition is completely revised, expanded, and updated, incorporating into the original format the many legal developments that have occured during the past 13 years.

The Vatican Collections: The Papacy And Art


Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1985
    , Vatican Collections, The: The Papacy And Art