The power of display
Subtitle: a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art
By: Mary Anne Staniszewski.
Contributors: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Museum exhibits -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-358) and index.