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Controversial, provocative, and at the same time poignantly humorous. Andrea Fraser (*1965 in Billings, Montana) is one of the most influential and pioneering artists of her generation and has been captivating her audience for more than thirty years. She employs a wide range of media, including prints, photographs, installations, and performances as well as texts and videos, time and again reformulating the same question: what we all want from art—the motivation behind Fraser’s artistic production, how we view it, and how the art market distributes it. The richly illustrated catalogue allows tracing the artist for the first time from the beginning of her career. It assembles the early Four Posters (1984) as well as her famous performances, such as Museum Highlights (1989), Inaugural Speech (1997), and Official Welcome (2001/03), linking them with her most recent videos.

art criticism --- performance art --- installations [visual works] --- feminism --- video art --- Art --- sexuality --- Fraser, Andrea --- Fraser, Andrea, --- Salzburg --- Museum der Moderne Salzburg --- art interventions --- Fraser, Andrea, - 1965 --- -Fraser, Andrea, - 1965 --- -Art --- social criticism --- -Fraser, Andrea, --- -Fraser, Andrea, - 1965-

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Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique—as in a performance piece in which she leads a tour as a museum docent and describes the men's room in the same elevated language that she uses to describe seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Influenced by the interdisciplinarity of postmodernism, Fraser's interventionist art draws on four primary artistic and intellectual frameworks—institutional critique, with its site-specific examination of cultural context ; performance ; feminism, with its investigation of identity formation ; and Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. Fraser's writings form an integral part of her artistic practice, and this collection of texts written between 1985 and 2003—including the performance script for the docent's tour that gives the book its title—both documents and represents her work. The writings in Museum Highlights are arranged to reflect different aspects of Fraser's artistic practice. They include essays that trace the development of critical "artistic practice" as cultural resistance ; performance scripts that explore art institutions and the public sphere ; and texts that explore the ambivalent relationship of art to the economic and political interests of its time. The final piece, "Isn't This a Wonderful Place ? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao)," reflects on the role of museums in an era of globalization. Among the book's 30 illustrations are stills from performance pieces, some never before published.

Fraser, Andrea. --- Performance art --- Artists and patrons --- Artists and museums --- Arts and society --- Arts audiences --- Art --- Hierarchies --- Exhibition techniques --- Evaluation --- Fraser, Andrea --- Written works --- Aesthetics --- Social aspects --- Written works. --- Aesthetics. --- Performance --- Féminisme --- Femme artiste --- Ecrit d'artiste --- Performance art - United States --- Art - Exhibition techniques - Evaluation --- Fraser, Andrea - Written works --- Fraser, Andrea - Aesthetics

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architecture [discipline] --- landscapes [representations] --- commissions [orders for works] --- Architecture --- Iconography --- Art --- Hoffmann, Josef --- Müller, Christian Philipp --- Fraser, Andrea --- Rockenschaub, Gerwald --- anno 1900-1999 --- Austria --- Oostenrijk --- kunst en politiek