| Description |
xxix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 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. Installations for Political Persuasion -- 5. Installation Design and Installation Art -- 6. Conclusion: The Museum and the Power of Memory |
| 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 museum - The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Focusing on over two hundred photographs of the visually rich but overlooked history of exhibitions, Staniszewski documents and deciphers an essential chapter of twentieth-century art and culture and provides a historical and theoretical framework for a primary area of contemporary aesthetic practice - installation-based art."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [344]-358) and index |
| Subject |
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Installations (Art) -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Museum exhibits -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Exhibitions -- Design and construction.
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| Author |
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| LC no. |
98007880 |
| ISBN |
0262692724 alkaline paper |
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0262194023 alkaline paper |
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