{"product_id":"in-search-of-a-lost-avant-garde-an-anthropologist-investigates-the-contemporary-art-museum-paperback","title":"In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatti Bunzl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at a contemporary art museum. From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, Matti Bunzl's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of a Lost Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bunzl's ethnography is designed to show how a commitment to the avant-garde can come into conflict with an imperative for growth, leading to the abandonment of the new and difficult in favor of the entertaining and profitable. Jeff Koons, whose massive retrospective debuted during Bunzl's research, occupies a central place in his book and exposes the anxieties caused by such seemingly pornographic work as the infamous \u003ci\u003eMade in Heaven \u003c\/i\u003eseries. Featuring cameos by other leading artists, including Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Karen Kilimnik, and Tino Sehgal, the drama Bunzl narrates is palpable and entertaining and sheds an altogether new light on the contemporary art boom.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatti Bunzl\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSymptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45260319391846,"sku":"9780226418124","price":40.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bWIrZnBYREFjcUQ5ZGY1NFN5UVBBdz09.webp?v=1773881431","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/in-search-of-a-lost-avant-garde-an-anthropologist-investigates-the-contemporary-art-museum-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}