Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser

'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 Fraser 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. [...] Fraser's writings from 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.' (Back cover, 'Museum Highlights')

Access level

Onsite

artist

Andrea FRASER

author

Andrea FRASER

practitioner

Donald NICHOLSON-SMITH

publisher

The MIT Press (Cambridge, United States)

editor

Alexander ALBERRO

Location code

REF.FRA2

Language

English

Keyword

performance art, museum studies, institutional critique

Publication/Creation date

2005

No of pages

291

ISBN / ISSN

9780262562300

No of copies

Content type

anthology,

monograph

Chapter headings

Foreword: Revolution and Revelation - Pierre BOURDIEU

Introduction: Mimicry, Excess, Critique - Alexander ALBERRO

Critical Practices

An Artist's Statement (1992)

In and Out of Place (1985)

'Creativity = Capital'? (1986)

It's Art When I Say It's Art, or... (1995)

What's Intangible, Transitory, Mediating, Participatory, and Rendered in the Public Sphere? (1996)

What's Intangible, Transitory, Mediating, Participatory, and Rendered in the Public Sphere? Part II (1996)

'To Quote,' Say the Kabyles, 'Is to Bring Back to Life' (2002)

Public Institutions, Private Objects

Notes on the Museum's Publicity (1990)

Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk (1989)

A Letter to the Wadsworth Atheneum (1991)

Welcome to the Wadsworth (1991)

Aren't They Lovely? An Introduction (1992)

Professional Interests

A Speech on Documenta (1992)

How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994)

What Do I, as an Artist, Provide? (A Speech at the EA-Generali Foundation) (1995)

Slashing the American Canvas, or, Why I Would Rather Have a Day Job (1998)

A 'Sensation' Chronicle (2001)

Official Welcome (2001)

In Conclusion? Onward to the Past, or, Art at the Forefront of Regression

Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) (2003)

Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser

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Tag

Performance Art