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Artists work in museums: histories, interventions, subjectivities

This book, co-edited and introduced by Sandino and Matilda Pye and including a chapter by Sandino, explores the history and subjectivity of artists working as museum employees, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. The research for this book began in 2011 with an invited seminar with museum professionals organised by Sandino and Pye at Chelsea College of Art that was then developed into a two-day international conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2012 entitled ‘Artists Work in Museums’. Sandino’s chapter, ‘Art School trained staff and Communists in the V&A Circulation department, c.1947-58’ focuses on how left-wing attitudes in one department of the V&A steered research into the late nineteenth-century in the post-war era, and how this was linked to identity and subjectivity.