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PUBLISHER
New Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 288 pgs / 292 color / 106 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 62   

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ISBN 9780915557127 TRADE
List Price: $49.95 CDN $67.50 GBP £44.99

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NEW MUSEUM

The Keeper

Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Natalie Bell. Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Text by Massimiliano Gioni, Ed Atkins, Wilson Bentley, Marguerite Yourcenar, Ydessa Hendeles, Robert H. Boyle, Loretta Pettway, Zofia Rydet, John Cohen, Harry Smith, Orhan Pamuk.

The KeeperThe Keeper accompanies an exhibition dedicated to the act of preserving objects, artworks and images. Through a variety of imaginary museums, personal collections and unusual assemblages, it offers a reflection on the impulse to save both the most precious and the apparently valueless, and reveals the devotion with which artists, collectors, scholars and hoarders have created sanctuaries for endangered images and artifacts.
Through works spanning the 20th century, The Keeper tells the stories of various individuals through the objects they chose to safeguard. Some, such as Roger Caillois’ collection of rare stones and Harry Smith’s string figures, pursue a universal syntax. Other collections were not so much kept as withheld, such as Hilma af Klint’s suite of abstract paintings from 1906–15, which she kept hidden for decades after her death, venturing that her work would be better appreciated beyond her own time. Shinro Ohtake’s feverishly collaged scrapbooks burst with found materials as free associations of images and everyday ephemera. In a ceremonious personal custom, Ye Jinglu had a studio portrait of himself taken every year for decades. These photos, preserved by Tong Bingxue, represent collecting as a mode of auto-ethnography that inadvertently also traces social and political changes over time. The centerpiece of the book is a vast display conceived by Ydessa Hendeles, composed of over 3,000 family-album photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears.

Featured image, from Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn's collection of images of great goddesses that appear in statues from Aztec, Minoan and Babylonian civilizations, is reproduced from “The Keeper."

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

The New York Times

William Hamilton

With over 4,000 objects representing more than two dozen collectors, including contemporary artists making art conceived by collecting, Massimiliano Gioni, the museum’s artistic director, and his team of curators have mounted a remarkable series of object lessons about what it means to 'keep,' the relationship of possession to loss, the madness inherent in love, and the undeniable importance of the individual’s voice in recording and interpreting history and its sweep.

Wallpaper

Carly Ayres

Stacks of over 300,000 drawings, assemblages of collected hair and debris, as well as meticulously hand-carved wooden figurines make up just a few of the items on display in the New Museum’s latest exhibition, 'The Keeper'. It's a show which effectively blends the boundaries between curating, creating, and collecting art.

The New York Times

Holland Cotter

As an object, single or multiplied, it serves the basic function that collecting — call it hoarding, call it installation art — does. It lets us keep the illusion that we can forever embrace, and be embraced by, what is forever fading away.

New York Magazine

Jerry Saltz

‘The Keeper’ shows us that there is more in the category of art than our present system has dreamed of.

The New York Times

Roberta Smith

[Hilma af Klint's] 15 paintings in "The Keeper" exhibition at the New Museum... form one of the greatest sights in any New York museum right now.

The New York Times

Jerry Salz

A [catalogue] that casts a much wider net, that gives weirder and more idiosyncratic work much more room- and makes everything we're used to seeing in museums (and even galleries) seem hemmed in by comparison.

Artforum

Brian Wallis

Foregrounding a passion for images and collecting, ‘The Keeper’ worked to dismantle the presumptions that govern museums and limit our pleasure in commonplace things.

The New York Times

Randy Kennedy

The catalog for one of the most engaging New York museum shows this year, The Keeper is about obsessive collecting as a mutant species of art-making, a deeply human desire for preservation that leads in one direction to the world’s great museums and in the other to the Collyer brothers. Levi Fisher Ames’s fantastical whittled zoo creatures from around the turn of the last century are worth the price of this book all by themselves.

The Keeper

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