Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne

Thinking About Exhibitions (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134820023
• Artikelnr.: 42725389

Autorenporträt

Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF PLATES
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
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?
2. BROKERING IDENTITIES: art curators and the politics of cultural representation
3. LARGE EXHIBITIONS: a sketch of a typology
4. FOR EXAMPLE
DOCUMENTA
OR
HOW IS ART HISTORY PRODUCED?
PART II: STAGING SPECTATORS
5. THE EXHIBITIONARY COMPLEX
6. THE MUSEUM FLAT
7. NAMING NAMES: the art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt
PART III: GRAMMATIC ACTS
8. LES IMMATÉRIAUX
9. EXHIBITION RHETORICS: material speech and utter sense
10. CREATING SPACES
11. THE DISCOURSE OF THE MUSEUM
PART IV: CURATORS OR CATERERS
12. THE GREAT CURATORIAL DIM-OUT
13. FROM MUSEUM CURATOR TO EXHIBITION AUTEUR: inventing a singular position
14. CONSTRUCTING THE SPECTACLE OF CULTURE IN MUSEUMS
15. THE SHOW YOU LOVE TO HATE: a psychology of the mega-exhibition
16. FREE FALL-FREEZE FRAME: Africa
exhibitions
artists
PART V: SPATIAL PLAY
17. THE ONE-PICTURE GALLERY
18. DISSENTING SPACES
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
20. THE GALLERY AS A GESTURE
21. POSTMODERNISM'S MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS
22. THE EXHIBITED REDISTRIBUTED: a case for reassessing space
PART VI: THE EXHIBITION CONDITION
23. A VISUAL MACHINE: art installation and its modern archetypes
24. THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF DISSENT
25. MODERNISM
NATIONALISM AND BEYOND: a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art
26. IN AND OUT OF PLACE
27. WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART EXHIBITIONS?
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX