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Claire Bishop

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Claire Bishop is a British-born art historian, critic, and professor known for her incisive analysis of contemporary participatory and socially engaged art. Her work, particularly the 2012 book 'Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship,' established her as a leading critical voice questioning the ethical and aesthetic assumptions of relational aesthetics. She is a professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and her writing regularly appears in major publications like Artforum.

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Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Radical Museology: Or, What's 'Contemporary' in Museums of Contemporary Art?
Installation Art: A Critical History
Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art series editor)

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