Thinking about Exhibitions

Name: Thinking about Exhibitions
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ISBN: 9780415115902

ISBN-10: 0415115906

ISBN-13: 9780415115902

Edition: 1996

Authors: Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Nairne

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Exhibitions have becomethemedium through which most art becomes known and assessed. But the art exhibition is an increasingly critical and unstable category. Constantly reshaped by artists and curators, the exhibition has become both a prominent and diverse part of contemporary culture.Thinking About Exhibitionspresents a multi-disciplinary anthology of writings on exhibition practice by curators, critics, artists, sociologists and historians from North America, Europe and Australia. Texts in the collection are grouped in sections which focus on the history of the exhibition, forms of staging and spectacle, and questions of curatorship, spectatorship and narrative. As well as critical…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/13/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English

Bruce W. Ferguson is a cultural theorist who works both in academic institutions and more broadly initiates cultural interventions. He is currently the Director of F.A.R. (Future Arts Research), Phoenix, Arizona.



List of Plates


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction




The Museum and the 'Ahistorical' Exhibition: the latest gimmick by the arbiters of taste, or an important cultural phenomenon?




Brokering Identities: art curators and the politics of cultural representation




Large Exhibitions: a sketch of a typology




For Example, Documenta, or, How is Art History Produced?




The Exhibitionary Complex




The Museum Flat




Naming Names: the art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt




Les Immateriaux




Exhibition Rhetorics: material speech and utter sense




Creating Spaces




The Discourse of the Museum




The Great Curatorial Dim-Out




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 mega-exhibition




Free Fall - Freeze Frame: Africa, exhibitions, artists




The One-Picture 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 specially summarized here




The Gallery as a Gesture




Postmodernism's Museum without Walls




The Exhibited Redistributed: a case for reassessing space




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




What's Important About the History of Modern Art Exhibitions?



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Index