Beyond the Head
The Practical Work of Curating Contemporary Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4245879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophia Krzys Acord (University of California System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 447-467 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-0436 • E-ISSN: 1573-7837 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11133-010-9164-y |
| OpenAlex | W2111861446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 86 |
In contemporary art, the curator plays an important role in the production of artistic meaning through exhibition-making. Although sociology has tended to see this work as the exercise of tacit or embodied knowledge, curatorial knowledge and plans may be elaborated and altered by the situated actions of exhibition installation. While curators know a successful installation "when they see it," this depends on the indexical particularities of artworks and environments which cannot be predicted in advance. In demonstrating the practical ways in which culture is mobilized in situations of object (inter)action, this paper emphasizes the "making" in artistic meaning-making
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Cross-cultural psychology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Exhibition · Indexicality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Situated · Sociology · Tacit knowledge · Visual arts · Work (physics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Introduction - An internal ecosystem
Curating pandemic contingencies
Recipe for a Good Life
Evaluation in Interaction
‘Talking sense’ about art
The Legitimation of Young and Emerging Artists in Digital Platforms
No longer an imaginary case
Investigating the Development and Reception of an Art Exhibition on the Theme of Early Modern Representations of Love
Putting sexualized labour in the picture
The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the “curator-as-artist”
Elemente einer Soziologie der Bewertung
La construcción de una exposición de arte contemporáneo
Scenography and the Production of Artworks in Contemporary Art
The Art Gallery and its Audience
Even Clean Hands Leave Marks”
The mastersingers
Psychosocial curating
Exhibiting in spite of all”
Digital curation beyond the “wild frontier”
I Blame House Hunters ’
Art in the Time of Frugality
Bewertung unter Vorbehalt. Zur Praxis der Bewertungskommunikation in einem Streichquartett
Legitimate judgment in art, the scientific world reversed? Maintaining critical distance in evaluation
Curation as Engagement
Cognition in art education
Ways of Knowing
Curating complexity
Access to what? Alzheimer's disease and esthetic sense-making in the contemporary art museum
Striving for Consensus
In the dark
Portrait of the Artist as a Non-Artist. Matryoshka Roles and the Heteronomization of the Italian Art Field
Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space
Situated Abstraction
Representations of Gender categorizations
How Does an Aesthetic Object Happen? Emergence, Disappearance, Multiplicity
Shifting Artistic Identity on Canvas
Music in action
The Editorial Meeting at a Little Magazine
Community Sense
Scholars and poor communicators? Old Masters exhibitions as a scientific practice and communication activity for art museum curators
Curating Inequality
The Moodiness of Action
Seeing culture through the eye of the beholder
Talking about Beauty
La passion musicale
Canvases and careers
Cultivating differences
On line and on paper
Ways of the hand
The French art market
Science as Practice and Culture
After Adorno
The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception
How Professors Think
The Social Production of Art
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Cognition in the Wild
Music in Everyday Life
Culture and Organizational Learning
The Tacit Dimension
Plans and situated actions
The practice turn in contemporary theory
The field of cultural production
Different Worlds
Thinking About Exhibitions
Displays and Fragments
Distinction
The Sociology of an Actor-Network
Knowing Machines
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Theorizing the Standoff
On Justification
Emotions in Social Life
The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic
Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology
Reassembling the Social
Antoine Hennion, La passion musicale. Une sociologie de la médiation
Beyond the ‘Code
How to do things with things
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Part II
I.1 The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar
Language, Society and Subjective Experience
Overcoming Aesthetic Muteness
Culture and Microsociology
Uncovering the Semiotic in Organizational Aesthetics
Culture and the Arts
Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston
Cognition in Practice
Interaction Ritual Chains
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
The market of symbolic goods
Art from Start to Finish
Vienne a Paris. Portrait d'une exposition
La Passion musicale. Une sociologie de la médiation
Action and embodiment within situated human interaction
Les frontières de l'art à l'épreuve de l'expertise. Politique de la décision dans une commission municipale
Du conservateur de musée à l'auteur d'expositions
Expertise et politique publique de l'art contemporain
Logics of History
Situated Learning
Epistemic Cultures
La certification de la valeur de l'art. Experts et expertises
The Transformation of the Avant-Garde
Those Things That Hold Us Together
Chalk Steps on the Museum Floor
The Production of Culture Perspective
Culture and Cognition
Constructing a Sociology for an Icon of Aesthetic Modernity
Pictures at an Exhibition
Conflicting visions in American art museums
The social space and the genesis of groups
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,93 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |