Harald Szeemann: museum of obsessions

Abstract

"An examination of the career of the influential Swiss curator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005), drawing on his extensive archive and library housed at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Foreword / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Introduction: The Kingdom of Obsessions / Glenn Phillips -- Interview with Tobia Bezzola / Glenn Phillips -- Interview with Christo / Glenn Phillips -- Interview with Gilberto Zorio / Glenn Phillips -- Interview with Klaus Honnef / Philipp Kaiser and Glenn Phillips -- Harald Szeemann's Museum of Obsessions, between Parody and Consecration / Doris Chon -- The Grandfather Exhibition: A Sort of Manifesto / Mariana Roquette Teixeira -- Repeat the Unique Thing: Love, the Artwork, Life / Pietro Rigolo -- An Art History of Intensive Intentions / Megan R. Luke -- Those Who Were Seen Dancing : Harald Szeemann and Armand Schulthess / Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev -- When Attitudes Become a Profession: Harald Szeemann's Self-Referential Practice and the Art of the Exhibition / Beatrice von Bismarck -- The Avant-garde of Silence: Harald Szeemann's Sculpture Exhibitions of the 1980s / Philipp Kaiser -- Interview with Anda Rottenberg / Doris Chon -- Interview with Tania Bruguera / Glenn Phillips -- Pioneers Like Us / Glenn Phillips.