'"Thinking About Exhibitions" presents a multi-disciplinary anthology of writings on current exhibition practice by curators, critics, artists, sociologists and historians from North America, Europe and Australia. It marks out the emergence of new discourses surrounding the exhibition and illustrates the urgency of the debates centred in and fostered by exhibitions today. The essays investigate exhibitions in settings outside of the traditional gallery as well as innovative work in extending cultural debates within the museum. Texts have been grouped in sections which focus on the history of the exhibition, forms of staging and spectacle, and questions of curatorship, spectatorship and narrative.' (Back cover, 'Thinking About Exhibitions')
Access level
Onsite
publisher
Location code
REF.GRR2
Language
English
Keywords
art history, museum studies, curatorial studies, cultural studies
Publication/Creation date
2008
No of pages
487
ISBN / ISSN
9780415115902
No of copies
1
Content type
anthology
Chapter headings
The Future of History
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?
Staging Spectators
The Exhibitionary Complex
The Museum Flat
Naming Names: the Art of Memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt
Grammatic Acts
Les Immatériaux
Exhibition Rhetorics: Material Speech and Utter Sense
Creating Spaces
The Discourse of the Museum
Curators or Caterers
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
Spatial Play
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
The Exhibition Condition
A Visual Machine: Art Installation and Its Modern Archetypes
The Institutionalization of Dissent
Modernism, Nationalsim 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?
Thinking About Exhibitions
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