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“This guide renews the way of apprehending the places of exhibitions. Whether you are a regular or a complete novice, it reveals the relevance or absurdity of museum conventions. It encourages you to become an actor of your visit, to appropriate this place in order to truly enrich yourself in contact with the works, to make your own the challenge that art represents by questioning yourself.

IDEMA, Johan
Eyrolles, Paris, 2018
128p.

Destruction, degradation and interventions in museums in Europe and North America since 1970

“The issue of vandalism in museums is of particular importance in our time… The author was particularly interested in creative vandalism, perpetrated by other artists on a museum work and the relationship between the vandal, the vandalized work and artist, and the curator or institution.” François Mairesse

BESSETTE, Anne
L’Harmattan, Paris, 2021
284p.

Histories, institutions, practices

“This book is the result of interviews conducted with 38 curators between 2014 and 2017, as part of a research on the history of temporary exhibitions since 1945 in France.

GILARDET, Brigitte
Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2020
524p

Reenactments, (in)current cultural and artistic practices

“Since the beginning of this millennium, a certain craze for reenactment has been observed in artistic and cultural practices. This term, which has no satisfactory equivalent in French, designates the phenomena of recreation, reconstitution, revival and other forms of living reactivation of performative works of the past, of historical events or cultural phenomena” Anne Bénichou

BENICHOU, Anne
Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2020
421p.

the exposed art and its authorized narratives 

“By trying to trace the great features of the authorized narratives, that is to say of these speeches of which the artists accompany their aesthetic performances, I tried not to propose a research of the truth of the works in the comments made by their authors, but to determine the process… ”

POINSOT, Jean-Marc
Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne; MAMCO, Geneva, 1999
328p.

Land Art and Its Mutations

“…Gathering unpublished interviews of Land Art artists, this book analyzes their works and collects their thoughts to understand why they have assimilated the original practices of Land Art by digging new furrows.”

BERTHOU CRESTEY, Muriel
Editions Ides et Calendes, Lausanne, 2020
203p.

she-bam pow pop wizz!

“The Amazons of Pop traces the story of a generation of European and North American women who boldly and flamboyantly contributed to international Pop…”

GUENIN, Hélène (under the direction of), GOURBE, Géraldine (under the direction of)
Flammarion, Paris ; MAMAC, Nice, 2020
159p.

Intriguing dialogue on the museums of artists and collectors

Epistolary exchange between Libero Gamboni, who travels the world discovering museums created by artists or collectors, and his cousin Dario Gamboni, art historian.

GAMBONI, Dario & Libero
Hazan, Paris, 2020
670p.

This spring-summer 2021 issue of the Canadian magazine Esse is entitled (Re)voir la peinture

“…While offering a selection that testifies to the plurality of aesthetic and conceptual approaches to this art form, this issue especially proposes reflections on different strategies deployed in the practices or networks of art dissemination…”

BABIN, Sylvette (under the direction of)