The power of display : a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art / Mary Anne Staniszewski.

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Staniszewski, Mary Anne.

Title & Author:

The power of display : a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art / Mary Anne Staniszewski.

Publication:

Description:

xxix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-358) and index.
Introduction: Installation design: the "unconscious" of art exhibitions. -- Framing installation design: the international avant-gardes. -- Aestheticized installations for modernism, ethnographic art, and objects of everyday life. -- Installations for good design and good taste. -- Installations for political persuasion. -- Installation design and installation art. -- Conclusion: The museum and the power of memory.
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Dust jacket.

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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262194023 (alk. paper)
9780262194020 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
Museum of modern art (N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) Museum of Modern Art.
Museum exhibits New York (State) New York History.
Objets exposés New York (État) New York Histoire.
Museum exhibits
Ausstellung
Geschichte
Präsentation
Beeldende kunsten.
Tentoonstellingen.
Inrichting.
Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.)
Installaties (beeldende kunst)
Expositions artistiques.
Art Exhibition techniques
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

History
Books.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204097
Call No.: N620.M9 S83 1998
Status: Available

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