Anda Rottenberg : From Poland with Love - Letters to Harald Szeemann

Rottenberg, Anda

ISBN 10: 3858818429 / ISBN 13: 9783858818423

Published by Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2019

About this Item

B : 200 pages, 78 color and 14 b/w illustrations
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Over the period of twelve months, between May 2017 and 2018, Polish-born curator and critic Anda Rottenberg has written a series of fictitious letters to legendary curator and writer Harald Szeemann (1933?2005). In these pieces, Rottenberg analyzes the art and nature of curating and reveals references and relations in the history of art. She questions female artistic positions both in the Eastern and Western Europe and so encourages new individual readings of them. Her letters express a unique rhetoric that take-up questions and polemic judgements to amalgamate individual opinion and objective knowledge into a personal history.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1755695368399

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anda Rottenberg : From Poland with Love - Letters to Harald Szeemann
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858818429
• ISBN 13: 9783858818423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 17W x 24H x 0D centimeters 17 centimeters width by 24 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Weight: 0.7 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kuration
  • Kunsttheorie

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Synopsis

Over a period of twelve months, between May 2017 and May 2018, Polish curator and critic Anda Rottenberg wrote a series of fictional letters to the legendary curator and writer Harald Szeemann (1933–2005). In them, she reflects on the art and nature of curation throughout art history. Questioning the position of female artists in both Eastern and Western Europe, Rottenberg encourages new individual readings of them. Her letters display a distinctive rhetoric that raises questions and challenges judgments to amalgamate individual opinion and objective knowledge into a personal history.
 

About the Author

Anda Rottenberg is a curator, art critic, and writer based in Warsaw, Poland, and Tavira, Portugal. She is former director of Warsaw’s Zacheta National Gallery of Art.