TY - BOOK ID - 591158 TI - Curious lessons in the museum : the pedagogic potential of artists' interventions PY - 2013 SN - 9781409436171 9781409436188 9781409470991 1409436187 1409470997 9781315575605 1315575604 1409436179 1409436187 1409470997 131715553X 1317155521 9781317155515 9781317155522 9780815399407 PB - Farnham Ashgate DB - UniCat KW - Educational sciences KW - educating KW - Didactics of the arts KW - museology KW - Museology KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - Artists and museums. KW - Artists and museums KW - Art in education. KW - Museums KW - History. KW - Educational aspects. KW - Art museums KW - Museum techniques. KW - Education KW - Museums and artists KW - Exhibitions. KW - Technique KW - Applied museology KW - Museography KW - Museum practices KW - Museum studies KW - art appreciation KW - art interventions KW - Art museums. KW - Artistes et musées. KW - Musées d'art KW - Muséologie. KW - museology. KW - Aspect éducatif. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:591158 AB - Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still that recognise the pedagogic potential of interventionist artworks in galleries and museums. This book fills that gap and demonstrates how artists have been making curious but, none-the-less, useful contributions to museum education and curation for some time. Claire Robins investigates in depth the phenomenon of artists' interventions in museums and examines their pedagogic implications. She also brings to light and seeks to resolve many of the contradictions surrounding artists' interventions, where on the one hand contemporary artists have been accused of alienating audiences and, on the other, appear to have played a significant role in orchestrating positive developments to the way that learning is defined and configured in museums. She examines the disruptive and parodic strategies that artists have employed, and argues for that they can be understood as part of a move to re-establish the museum as a discursive forum. This valuable book will be essential reading for students and scholars of museum studies, as well as art and cultural studies. ER -