WILSON, Mick
On Discourse and the Curatorial

With the paradigm of salon exhibitions, developed some three centuries ago, bourgeois art patrons were moved to transform their experience of an exhibition into words. This incitement to discourse persists as a central component of contemporary curatorial practice, within and beyond exhibitions as singular events. In On Discourse and the Curatorial, Mick Wilson draws out the link between the dual imperatives to generate discourse and to cultivate culture, which emerge in the genealogy of the salon, the exhibition complex, and the museum.

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Series edited by Carolina Rito.

Published by Floating Opera Press, 2025
Design by Sofia Bresciani
Curatorial Studies