Artists’ books in museums

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2021

Authors

Nascimento, Elisa de Noronha (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Museum Management and Curatorship

Vol. 36 No. 3

Pages: 227-238

ISSN: 0964-7775

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Indexing

Scopus

ProQuest

EBSCO

Other information

DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2020.1803110

Abstract (EN): Although artists’ books have been consolidated as an art form in the twentieth century, and their place in library collections has come under the spotlight since the mid-1970s through a rich debate on the development and management of this typology of collections – showing the effort made by these institutions to keep up with the ever-increasing production of artists’ books since the mid-1960s – the discussion of the physical, symbolic an epistemological place of artists’ books in museum collections is still at an early stage. This paper, which falls within the intersection between artistic studies and museum studies, aims to enhance this discussion by identifying the contexts considered as essential to exploring and critically analysing the artist's book in the museum, presenting the Coleção de Livros e Edições de Artistas da Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea [Collection of Artists’ Books and Editions of the Serralves Foundation – Contemporary Art Museum], situated in Porto|Portugal as its case study.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Received 17 Dec 2019, Accepted 27 Jul 2020, Published online: 10 Aug 2020