Amongst the substantial number of recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct their attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still, if any, that recognise the pedagogic potential of interventionist artworks in galleries and museums. This book fills that gap and aims to demonstrate how artists have been teaching oblique, but none-the-less useful lessons to education, visitor services and curatorial departments in galleries and museums 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 them to be seen 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.
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