Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Thinking about exhibitions
- Author(s)
- Ferguson, Bruce W.
Nairne, Sandy - Publisher
- London : Routledge, 1996
- Collation
- xxii, 487 p. : ill.
26 cm. - ISBN
- 9780415115902
- Dewey Class
- 707.4
- Contents
- Introduction / Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne -- 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? / Debora J. Meijers -- 2 Brokering identities: art curators and the politics of cultural representation / Mari Carmen Ramírez -- 3 Large exhibitions: a sketch of a typology / Jean-Marc Poinsot -- 4 For example, documenta, or, how is art history produced? / Walter Grasskamp --
Part II. Staging Spectators. 5 The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett -- 6 The museum flat / Johanne Lamoureux -- 7 Naming names: the art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt / Peter S. Hawkins --
Part III. Grammatic Acts. 8 Les immatériaux / Jean-François Lyotard -- 9 Exhibition rhetorics: material speech and utter sense / Bruce W. Ferguson -- 10 Creating spaces / Gerald McMaster -- 11 The discourse of the museum / Mieke Bal --
Part IV. Curators or Caterers. 12 The great curatorial dim-out / Lawrence Alloway -- 13 From museum curator to exhibition auteur: inventing a singular position / Nathalie Heinich and Michael Pollak -- 14 Constructing the spectacle of culture in museums / Ivan Karp and Fred Wilson -- 15 The show you love to hate: a psychology of the mega-exhibition / John Miller -- 16 Free fall-freeze frame: Africa, exhibitions, artists / Clémentine Deliss --
Part V. Spatial Play. 17 The one-picture gallery / Valery Petrovich Sazonov -- 18 Dissenting spaces / Judith Barry -- 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 / Daniel Buren -- 20 The gallery as a gesture / Brian O'Doherty -- 21 Postmodernism's museum without walls / Rosalind E. Krauss -- 22 The exhibited redistributed: a case for reassessing space / Reesa Greenberg --
Part VI. The Exhibition Condition. 23 A visual machine: art installation and its modern archetypes / Germano Celant -- 24 The institutionalization of dissent / Sandy Nairne -- 25 Modernism, nationalism and beyond: a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art / Diana Nemiroff -- 26 In and out of place / Andrea Fraser -- 27 What's important about the history of modern art exhibitions? / Martha Ward. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Art exhibition audiences
- BRN
- 904
Availability
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