Visual display
Subtitle: culture beyond appearances
By: edited by Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen.
Contributors: Cooke, Lynne.; Wollen, Peter.
Series: Discussions in contemporary culture ;; no. 10
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Art and popular culture -- Congresses; Art and society -- Congresses; Visual perception -- Congresses; Visual communication in art -- Congresses; Communication and culture -- Congresses; Museum exhibits -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-346).
Proceedings of the conference Visual display held in May 1993.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peter Wollen; title: Shrines, curiosities, and the rhetoric of display / Stephen Bann; title: Death and life, in that order, in the works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart; title: The Musée sentimental of Daniel Spoerri / Jean-Hubert Martin; title: Beyond belief : the museum as metaphor / Ralph Rugoff; title: Visual stories / Ann Reynolds; title: Envisioning capital : political economy on display / Susan Buck-Morss; title: Constructing ethnicity / Edward Ball; title: Tales of total art and dreams of the total museum / Peter Wollen; title: Waxworks and wonderlands / Marina Warner; title: Medicine and genres of display / Ludmilla Jordanova; title: Gender artifacts : technologies of bodily display in the medical culture / Lisa Cartwright; title: Visual pleasure and the primordially repressed / Eric Santner; title: The artificial infinite / Scott Bukatman; title: Discussion.