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Visual display : culture beyond appearances / edited by Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen. - 351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Discussions in contemporary culture, no. 10 1047-6806 ; . - Discussions in contemporary culture ; no. 10. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-346).

Shrines, curiosities, and the rhetoric of display / Stephen Bann -- Death and life, in that order, in the works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart -- The Musée sentimental of Daniel Spoerri / Jean-Hubert Martin -- Beyond belief : the museum as metaphor / Ralph Rugoff -- Visual stories / Ann Reynolds -- Envisioning capital : political economy on display / Susan Buck-Morss -- Constructing ethnicity / Edward Ball -- Tales of total art and dreams of the total museum / Peter Wollen -- Waxworks and wonderlands / Marina Warner -- Medicine and genres of disply / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Gender artifacts : technologies of bodily display in the medical culture / Lisa Cartwright -- Visual pleasure and the primordially repressed / Eric Santner -- The artificial infinite / Scott Bukatman.

ISBN: 0941920321 9780941920322

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Composition (Art)
Proportion (Art)
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century
Visual communication.

LC Class. No.: N7430 / .V57 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 700.103