A Brief History of Curating: By Hans Ulrich Obrist (Documents)

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A part of JRP|Ringer’s innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to important writings, this publication accommodates a unique choice of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field–from early independent curators within the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the more than a few biennales and fairs–with pioneering curators Anne D’Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann at the occasion of this legendary curator’s death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, “the image we now have of the curator nowadays: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, freelance designer of exhibitions, or in his own witty formulation, a ‘spiritual guest worker’… If artists since Marcel Duchamp have affirmed selection and arrangement as legitimate artistic strategies, used to be it not simply a matter of time before curatorial practice–itself defined by selection and arrangement–would come to be seen as an art that operates at the field of art itself?”

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