The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art
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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, Staniszewksi offers a history of exhibitions at the most powerful and influential modern art museum - The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Focusing on over 200 photographs of the visually rich but overlooked history of exhibition, Staniszewski documents and deciphers an essential chapter of 20th-century art and culture and provides a historical and theoretical framework for a primary area of contemporary aesthetic practice - installation-based art.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0262194023
ISBN13:9780262194020
Release Date:December 1998
Publisher:MIT Press (MA)
Length:371 Pages
Weight:4.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 9.7" x 9.9"
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