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Beautiful Madness: Art Writing as Art Curating

Beautiful Madness: Art Writing as Art Curating

Paperback

Art Criticism & Theory

Publisher Price: $28.90

ISBN10: 9493246361
ISBN13: 9789493246362
Publisher: Valiz
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Thirty years of reflections on the intertwined disciplines of art curating and art writing

Exhibition curating and art writing are closely related disciplines. Both practices construct a meaningful, public narrative regarding artifacts and artists. Most curators and writers accomplish this by tapping into the artist, their work and their world. Mark Kremer has been writing, curating, teaching and interacting with artists for decades. Beautiful Madness is an accumulation of his writings on contemporary art from 1993 to 2023. The book gathers pieces along lines of affinity, themes and attitudes, structured in five topics: Trace, Gesture, Rudiment, Polyphony and Fortitude. It mirrors his experiences with art curating, writing and thinking, and is of value to anybody who wants to sharpen their pen and/or rethink what curating might mean.

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