Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The timely book by Fernando Domínguez Rubio [
Still Life]. . . . in an original and exhaustive way. . . . Looking at the curatorial and conservation departments at MOMA (as well as its storage facilities) and combining approaches from material cultural studies, anthropology, and social studies of science and technology, presents what its author calls “an ecological vision” of modern art." * Public Books *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Towards an Ecology of Modern Categories
Part 1 Ecologies of Care
Introduction Caring for the Same
Chapter 1.1 The Modern Object of Care
Chapter 1.2 The Elusive Object of Contemporary Art
Chapter 1.3 The Modern Subject of Care
Part 2 Ecologies of Containment
Introduction The Aesthetics of Containment
Chapter 2.1 Containing Eternity
Chapter 2.2 Eternity on the Move
Part 3 Ecologies of Imagination
Introduction Into the White
Chapter 3.1 The Interior Space of Art
Chapter 3.2 Exhibitions as Material Acts of Imagination
Part 4 Ecologies of the Digital
Chapter 4.1. The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Fragility
Conclusion
The Cracks of the Modern Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index
