Section outline

  • Meeting Point: 

    Morning Session: On the QMUL campus, Arts One 1.25

    Afternoon session: Tate Modern (take the District Line to Blackfriars). Go to the "Artist and Society" permanent display on Level 2 of the Natalie Bell Building and meet in Room 2 (this room is also called "A View from Sao Paolo: Abstraction and Society"). The meeting point is on the fourth page of this floor plan: 

    https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/galleries/TM_map.pdf

    • Essential Reading (ALL ATTACHED BELOW): 

      1. Carol Duncan, ‘The Modern Art Museum: It’s a Man’s World’ and ‘Conclusion’ in Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 103–34.
        • QUESTION: How is modern art typically presented in museums? And what is the problem with that approach, according to Duncan?
      2. ‘Roundtable:  Tate Modern’, October 98 (2001): 3-25.
        • QUESTION: What is Tate Modern's approach to presenting modern art and how does it break with the "typical" approach many museums have taken to presenting modern art (from your answer to the question above)?


      Further Reading: 

      • Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach, ‘The Museum of Modern Art as late capitalist ritual: an iconographic analysis’, reprinted in Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago (eds.), Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 483-500.
      • Hal Foster, ‘It's Modern but is it contemporary?’, London Review of Books, vol.26, no. 24, 16 December 2004, 23-25. 
      • J. Pedro Lorente, Cathedrals of Urban Modernity: The First Museums of Contemporary Art, 1800-1930 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). 
      • Franco Moretti, ‘MoMA 2000: The Capitulation’, New Left Review, no.4 (July-August 2000), 98-102. 
      • Nicholas Serota, Experience or Interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996).
      • Mary Staniszewski, The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1998). 


    • Duncan - The Modern Art Museum File
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    • Roundtable: Tate Modern URL

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