reading list

Do not worry! We are not expecting you to read anything in this list to attend the event 🙂

We wanted to share some publications on the topic of collecting, collectors, contemporary collecting, museums and art that have inspired us when organising the event. We hope to see this list increasing with your help too!

Leave a comment at the bottom of the page if you would like to add anything else to the list! Publications in any language are welcome!

In English:

Altshuler, B. (ed.) (2005) Collecting the new: museums and contemporary art. Princeton, N.J.; Oxford: Princeton, N.J.; Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Art Fund, Cannadine, D. (2018).Why collect? A report on museum collecting today. Published by the Art Fund with support from the Wolfson Foundation.

Art Fund (2021). Looking ahead: Museum Sector Research May 2021. Summary Report. Published by the Art Fund and Wafer Hadley.

Baetens, J.D. and Lyna, D. (eds.) (2015) Art crossing borders: the internationalisation of the art market in the age of nation states, 1750-1914. Leiden: Brill.

Baudrillard, J. (1994) ‘The System of Collecting’, in Cardinal, R. and Elsner, J. (eds.) The culture of collecting. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, pp. 7-24.

Bracken, S., Gáldy, A. and Turpin, A. (eds.) (2012) Collecting East and West. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Braddock, J. (2012) Collecting as modernist practice. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dalal-Clayton, Anjalie. (2020) Developing more representative art collections could not be more urgent.

Elsner, J. and Cardinal, R. (eds.) (1994) The cultures of collecting. London: Reaktion.

Hulst, T. (2017) A history of the western art market: a sourcebook of writings on artists, dealers, and markets. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

Jagodzińska, K. (2015). ‘Paradoxes of Contemporaneity in Museums of Art: The Temporal Limits’, in Jagodzińska, K. and Purchla, J. (eds) The Limits of Heritage?. Kraków: International Cultural Centre, pp. 86-101.

Knell, S. (ed.) (2004) Museums and the future of collecting. 2nd ed. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Knell, S. (2019) The contemporary museum: shaping museums for the global now. London; London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

McClellan, A. (2008) The art museum from Boullée to Bilbao. Berkeley, Calif.; London: University of California Press.

Messenger, P.M. (ed.) (1999) The ethics of collecting cultural property: whose culture? whose property? 2nd ed. Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Meyer, R. (2013) What was contemporary art? Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Pearce, S.M. (1992) Museums, objects and collections: a cultural study. Leicester: Leicester University Press.

___ (1995) On collecting: an investigation into collecting in the European tradition. London: Routledge.

___ (1998) Collecting in contemporary practice. London: SAGE.

___ (1994) Interpreting objects and collections / edited by Susan M. Pearce. London: London: Routledge, 1994.

Pomian, K. (1990) Collectors and curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Polity.

Von Bismarck, B., Munder, H., Schneeman. P. J. (eds.) (2017), Now – Tomorrow – Flux. An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich: JRP/Ringier, Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst.

Weibel, P. and Buddensieg, A. (eds.) (2007), Contemporary Art and the Museum. A Global Perspective, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.

Were, G. and King, J.C.H. (eds.) (2012) Extreme collecting: challenging practices for 21st century museums. New York: Berghahn Books.

In Portuguese:

Fialho, Ana Letícia; Ribeiro, Luciara, 2020. Politizando o mercado de arte: como novas propostas têm trazido à tona questões de raça, gênero e orientação sexual para o circuito.

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