Unsettling "Sensation" : arts-policy lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art controversy /
Item discusses the controversy surrounding "Sensation : young British artists from the Saatchi collection" when it was shown at the Brooklyn Museum of art, Fall 1999.
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2001.
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| Series: | Rutgers series on the public life of the arts
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the interests in "sensation" / Lawrence Rothfield
- The Brooklyn controversy: a view from the bridge / Carol Becker
- The marriage of art and business / Richard A. Epstein
- The questions of free speech / Geoffrey R. Stone
- Culture and the constitution: a guide for the perplexed / Cass R. Sunstein
- The false promise of the first amendment / David A. Strauss
- Reasons we shouldn't be here: things we cannot say / Stephen B. Presser
- Who should pay (for the arts and culture), who should decide, and what difference should it make? / J. Mark Schuster
- The subjunctive mood of art / Homi K. Bhabha
- An all-too-predictable sensation / David A. Ross
- Sensational or status quo: museums and public perception / Teri J. Edelstein
- Offending images / W.J.T. Mitchell
- The attitude of the audience for "sensation" and of the general public toward controversial works of art / David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso, and Gihong Yi
- Shop value / John Brewer
- "Sensation" and the ethics of funding exhibitions / James Cuno
- Some sensational reflections / Gilbert S. Edelson
- Don't shoot the messenger: why the art world and the press don't get along / Andr's Szàntò's
- Afterword / Kimberly Rorschach.