Promotional Information

Andrea Fraser has crafted an exemplary artistic practice devolving from institutional critique. Central to her work from its beginnings are texts that assume diverse guises -- research, analysis, theory -- and diverse voices -- witty, dry, affecting, clinical. This much-anticipated compendium richly demonstrates her singular ability to nullify normative distinctions between the work of art and analytic commentary, between the psychoanalytic and the fictive, as she mines the interwoven desires of the principal players in the art world -- museums, artists, and audiences. -- Lynne Cooke, Curator, Dia Art Foundation A stunning book -- Andrea Fraser turns the art museum inside out, time and again, in her incisive and mercilessly witty deconstructions. A rare combination of committed artistic practice working hand-in-hand with the insights of cultural theory. -- Tony Bennett, Professor of Sociology and Director, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at The Open University and the University of Manchester

About the Author

Andrea Fraser is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Museum Highlights- The Writings of Andrea Fraser, published by the MIT Press.

Reviews

These transcripts, along with the other essays in Museum Highlights, are a testament to Fraser's forcefulness as a writer, one for whom the act of writing and by necessity reading and researching is indivisible from her practice as an artist.
*Artforum*

The publication of this anthology marks a welcome occasion to reconsider the interweaving themes of Fraser's practice in relation to each other.
*Afterimage*

See the global culture industry laid bare with wit, erudition, and, above all, action.
*Icon Magazine*