Photography was long regarded as a “middlebrow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book—part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices—Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the V&A, an...

We leven in een tijd waarin het kunstaanbod groter is dan ooit, grote groepen mensen in aanraking komen met hedendaagse kunst, kunst meer en meer online verhandeld wordt, er ieder jaar nieuwe kunstmusea en foundations geopend worden. Er gaat geen zomer voorbij of ieder dorp in Vlaanderen organiseert zijn kunstroute. De kunstscholen leveren jaarlijks honderden kunstenaars af. De overheid blijft niet achter en subsidieert met gulle hand een lappendeken aan musea, evenementen en kunsthalletjes. ...

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