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Museum, archive, curatorial practices

The question of presentation, documentation, selection and storage of a work of art in the light of contemporary art practice is becoming increasingly important. At the same time, a number of new topics are being opened: about authorship, the role of curators in determining and forming the artistic field of activity, about the museum / gallery as a place of not only presentation but also participation, about the meaning of new technologies, cultural policies...

In the ALU Library, you can find publications that approach the field of museology and curatorship from various aspects.

The most important titles:

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist: Ways of Curating; London 2014.
  • Hans Ulrich Obrist: A Brief History of Curating; Zurich 2017.
  • Hans Ulrich Obrist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask; New York 2011.
  • James Putnam: Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium, Thames & Hudson; 2001.
  • Brian O'Doherty: Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, University of California Press; 2000.
  • Ernst van Alphen: Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media; Reaktion Books, 2014.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: Destination Culture – Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Berkley & LA 1998

  • Eds. Ivan Karp , Steven D. Lavine: Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Washington & London 1991.
  • Eds. Gill Perry, Colin Cunningham: Academies, Museums and Canons of Art , Yale University Press; 1999.
  • More authors: The Smithsonian Experience; Washington 1977.
  • Ed. Paolo Cherchi Usai et al.: Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace; Vienna 2008.
  • More authors: Film Mutations: Invisible Film Festival 04 – Politics of Film Curatorship; Zagreb 2010.
  • No Archiv: 10 Reasons for an Open Digital Archive of Neo-Avant-Garde and Conceptual Art; Zagreb 2013.
  • Journal "Fraction" no. 55: Curating Performing Arts, Zagreb 2010.
  • Journal "Life of Art" no. 85: Fragments of Curatorial Discourse, Zagreb 2009.
  • Eds. Raphael Gygax, Heike Munder: Between Zones: On the representation of the Performative and the Notation of Movement, Zurich 2010.
  • More authors: War Damages to Museums and Galleries in Croatia, Zagreb 1997.
  • Bernard Deloche: Virtual Museum: Towards the Ethics of New Images, Belgrade 2006.
  • Andre Gob – Noemie Drouguet: Museology: History, Development, Challenges of Today, Zagreb 2007
  • Vera Humski: An Overview of the History of Museums in Croatia: 19th and 20th Centuries (until 1945), Zagreb 1986.
  • Branka Šulc: Art Collections in Ancient Times, Zagreb 1978
  • Žarka Vujić: Sources of the Museum in Croatia, Zagreb 2007.
  • Ivo Maroević: Introduction to Museology, Zagreb 1993.
  • Nada Premerl et al.: Joža Ladović: The Art of Design – Exhibition Art Set-Ups, Zagreb 2012
  • More authors: Publications for Persons with Disabilities - A Publishing Challenge for Museums, Zagreb 2016.
  • More authors: A Look at the Museum's Electronic Publishing, Zagreb 2015.
  • More authors: What is a museum catalogue, Zagreb 2013.
  • More authors: Museum Publications for Children and Youth, Zagreb 2013
  • Sanja Šantak: On Exhibitions That Didn't Happen; Zagreb 2013.
  • Journals Informatica Museologica and Museology