Thinking about exhibitions /
edited by Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, and Sandy Nairne.
- xxii, 487 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-473) and index.
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? -- Select Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.
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