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        Picture-Work

        Picture-Work

        Picture-Work

        How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy

        by Diana Kamin

        ISBN: 9780262547000

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 21, 2023

        How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture.
        Picture Research

        Picture Research

        Picture Research

        The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization

        by Nina Lager Vestberg

        ISBN: 9780262045315

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 6, 2023

        An intimate foray into the invisible work that made it possible for pictures to circulate in print and online from the 1830s to the 2010s.
        Postsensual Aesthetics

        Postsensual Aesthetics

        Postsensual Aesthetics

        On the Logic of the Curatorial

        by James Voorhies

        ISBN: 9780262047609

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 28, 2023

        Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics.
        The Curatorial Condition

        The Curatorial Condition

        The Curatorial Condition

        by Beatrice von Bismarck

        ISBN: 9783956795343

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 2022

        An analysis of the relations created by the curatorial—relations that also constitute it.
        Artistic Ecologies

        Artistic Ecologies

        Artistic Ecologies

        New Compasses and Tools

        Edited by Emily Pethick, Pablo Martínez and How & for Whom/WHW What

        ISBN: 9783956796333

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 2022

        An inquiry into the current ways of knowing, their ramifications, and institutional and noninstitutional artistic practices that provide channels for education from below.
        Unannounced Voices

        Unannounced Voices

        Unannounced Voices

        Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions

        by Zdenka Badovinac

        ISBN: 9783956795848

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 2022

        Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised.
        Curating the Complex and the Open Strike

        Curating the Complex and the Open Strike

        Curating the Complex and the Open Strike

        by Terry Smith

        Foreword by Steven Henry Madoff

        ISBN: 9783956795312

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: May 3, 2022

        An analysis of the contexts in which curating takes place: why curate art these days and in the name of which interests?
        Tensta Museum

        Tensta Museum

        Tensta Museum

        Reports from New Sweden

        Edited by Maria Lind

        ISBN: 9783956794506

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: December 28, 2021

        Documenting a project that turned a suburb of Stockholm into a museum that produced concrete images of a Sweden where divides are intensifying.
        Preparing Dinosaurs

        Preparing Dinosaurs

        Preparing Dinosaurs

        The Work behind the Scenes

        by Caitlin Donahue Wylie

        ISBN: 9780262542678

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 31, 2021

        An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely.
        Logic of the Collection

        Logic of the Collection

        Logic of the Collection

        by Boris Groys

        ISBN: 9783956795268

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 24, 2021

        A prominent critic and theorist considers the criteria of value for collecting and storing works of art.
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