{ "item_title" : "Listening on Display", "item_author" : [" Linnea Semmerling "], "item_description" : "Listening on Display provides an empirical investigation of the historically, culturally, and socially contingent ways in which artists, curators, and visitors relate to sounds in contemporary art exhibitions.Sounding artworks have appeared regularly in contemporary art exhibitions since the 1960s,yet scholars of art history, musicology, sound studies, and museum studies have long notedthe experiential difficulties this development poses. They describe how sounds challenge thesensory hierarchy of the museum, how they disrupt the venerable silence of the white cube,or how they drown in the ambient noise of galleries. This book explores the listening experiences of artists, visitors, curators, and techniciansin more than twenty exhibitions that have taken place at contemporary art museums,alternative art spaces, and other venues in Germany and the United States since the 1960s.Through archival research, visitor book analysis, interviews, and observations drawing onsensory ethnography, Semmerling brings together their ideas and ideals about aestheticambitions, sensory abilities, cultural conventions, and technological standards. In doing so, thisbook lays the groundwork for rethinking sound in exhibition spaces.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/876/513/9798765136232_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "120.00", "online_price" : "120.00", "our_price" : "120.00", "club_price" : "120.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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