
Thinking About Exhibitions
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 1996
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-415-11589-6 (ISBN)
Description
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
1270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-11589-6 (9780415115896)
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Bruce W. Ferguson | Reesa Greenberg | Sandy Nairne
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Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne
Content
LIST OF PLATES, NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, INTRODUCTION, PART I: THE FUTURE OF HISTORY, 1. THE MUSEUM AND THE 'AHISTORICAL' EXHIBITION: the latest gimmick by the arbiters of taste, or an important cultural phenomenon?, 2. BROKERING IDENTITIES: art curators and the politics of cultural representation, 3. LARGE EXHIBITIONS: a sketch of a typology, 4. FOR EXAMPLE, DOCUMENTA, OR, HOW IS ART HISTORY PRODUCED?, PART II: STAGING SPECTATORS, 5. THE EXHIBITIONARY COMPLEX, 6. THE MUSEUM FLAT, 7. NAMING NAMES: the art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt, PART III: GRAMMATIC ACTS, 8. LES IMMATERIAUX, 9. EXHIBITION RHETORICS: material speech and utter sense, 10. CREATING SPACES, 11. THE DISCOURSE OF THE MUSEUM, PART IV: CURATORS OR CATERERS, 12. THE GREAT CURATORIAL DIM-OUT, 13. FROM MUSEUM CURATOR TO EXHIBITION AUTEUR: inventing a singular position, 14. CONSTRUCTING THE SPECTACLE OF CULTURE IN MUSEUMS, 15. THE SHOW YOU LOVE TO HATE: a psychology of the mega-exhibition, 16. FREE FALL-FREEZE FRAME: Africa, exhibitions, artists, PART V: SPATIAL PLAY, 17. THE ONE-PICTURE GALLERY, 18. DISSENTING SPACES, 19. FUNCTION OF ARCHITECTURE: notes on work in connection with the places where it is installed taken between 1967 and 1975, some of which are specially summarized here, 20. THE GALLERY AS A GESTURE, 21. POSTMODERNISM'S MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS, 22. THE EXHIBITED REDISTRIBUTED: a case for reassessing space, PART VI: THE EXHIBITION CONDITION, 23. A VISUAL MACHINE: art installation and its modern archetypes, 24. THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF DISSENT, 25. MODERNISM, NATIONALISM AND BEYOND: a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art, 26. IN AND OUT OF PLACE, 27. WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART EXHIBITIONS?, SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX