The power of display : a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art / Mary Anne...
The power of display : a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art / Mary Anne...
The power of display : a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art / Mary Anne Staniszewski.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.
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NQ709.0400747/1
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English
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Physical content
xxix, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Installation Design: The "Unconscious" of Art Exhibitions -- 1. Framing Installation Design: The International Avant-Gardes -- 2. Aestheticized Installations for Modernism, Ethnographic Art, and Objects of Everyday Life -- 3. Installations for Good Design and Good Taste -- 4. Installat...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
"Art historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored what Mary Anne Staniszewski calls "the power of display." In this examination of installation design as an aesthetic medium and cultural practice, Staniszewski offers the first history of exhibitions at the most powerful and influential modern art museu...
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The power of display : a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art / Mary Anne Staniszewski.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-358) and index.
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c1998.
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NQ709.0400747/1
Record Identifier
74VM0K8ak4Pd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM0K8ak4Pd
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ISBN
0262692724 (alk. paper)
9780262194020 (alk. paper)
0262194023 (alk. paper)
9780262692724 (alk. paper)
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709.0400747471
MMS ID
991001696679702626
