Thinking about ExhibitionsReesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Nairne "Presents a multidisciplinary anthology of writings on current exhibition practice by curators, critics, artists, sociologists and historians form North America, Europe and Australia. It marks out the emergence of new discourses surrounding the exhibition and illustrates the urgency of the debates centred in and fostered by exhibitions today. Texts have been grouped ... in sections which focus on the history of the exhibition, forms of staging and spectacle, and questions of curatorship, spectatorship and narrative. These writings ... investigate exhibitions in settings outside of the traditional gallery as well as innovative work in extending cultural debates within the museum ... fully ilustrated with over ninety black-and-white photographs and includes a bibliography on the subject of art exhibitions"--Page i. |
Contents
THE MUSEUM AND THE AHISTORICAL EXHIBITION the latest gimmick by the arbiters of taste or an important cultural phenomeono? | 5 |
BROKERING IDENTITIES art curators and the politics of cultural representation | 15 |
LARGE EXHIBITIONS a sketch of a typology | 67 |
FOR EXAMPLE DOCUMENTSOR HOW IS ART HISTORY PRODUCED? | 55 |
STAGING SPECTATORS | 81 |
THE EXHIBITIONARY COMPLEX | 85 |
THE MUSEUM FLAT | 111 |
NAMING NAMES the art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt | 111 |
FREE FALL FREEZE FRAME Africa exhibitions artists | |
SPATIAL PLAY | |
THE ONEPICTURE GALLERY | |
DISSENTING SPACES | |
FUNCTION OF ARCHITECTURE notes on work in connection with the places where it is installed taken between 1967 and 1975 some of which are ... | |
THE GALLERY AS A GESTURE | |
POSTMODERNISMS MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS | |
THE EXHIBITED REDISTRIBUTED a case for reassessing space | |
GRAMMATIC ACTS | 111 |
LES IMMATERIAUX | 111 |
EXHIBITION RHETORICS material speech and utter sense | 111 |
CREATING SPACES | 111 |
THE DISCOURSE OF THE MUSEUM | 129 |
CURATORS OR CATERERS | |
THE GREAT CURATORIAL DIMOUT | |
FROM MUSEUM CURATOR TO EXHIBITION AUTEUR inventing a singular position | |
CONSTRUCTING THE SPECTACLE OF CULTURE IN MUSEUMS | |
THE SHOW YOU LOVE TO HATE a psychology of the megaexhibition | |
THE EXHIBITION CONDITION | |
A VISUAL MACHINE art installation and its modern archetypes | |
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF DISSENT | |
MODERNISM NATIONALISM AND BEYOND a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art | |
IN AND OUT OF PLACE | |
WHATS IMPORTANT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART EXHIBITIONS? | |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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