{"product_id":"9780226714080","title":"Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow do you keep the cracks in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStarry Night \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal—or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that conservators, curators, registrars, and exhibition designers dealing with contemporary art face on a daily basis. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Fernando Domínguez Rubio delves into one of the most important museums of the world, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, to explore the day-to-day dilemmas that museum workers face when the immortal artworks that we see in the exhibition room reveal themselves to be slowly unfolding disasters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a fascinating and detailed ethnographic account of what it takes to prevent these disasters from happening. Going behind the scenes at MoMA, Domínguez Rubio provides a rare view of the vast technological apparatus—from climatic infrastructures and storage facilities, to conservation labs and machine rooms—and teams of workers—from conservators and engineers to guards and couriers—who fight to hold artworks still.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs MoMA reopens after a massive expansion and rearranging of its space and collections,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e Still Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e not only offers a much-needed account of the spaces, actors, and forms of labor traditionally left out of the main narratives of art, but it also offers a timely meditation on how far we, as a society, are willing to go to keep the things we value from disappearing into oblivion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernando Domínguez Rubio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47875574759646,"sku":"9780226714080","price":55.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/9780226714080.jpg?v=1769995364","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9780226714080","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}