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 ...
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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.
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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); 3.7 lbs; Gray dust jacket with photo of art exhibit & title in yellow lettering; 1998, The MIT Press; 400 pages; "The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art, " by Mary Anne Staniszewski.
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Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Clean jacket with no tears (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Excellent binding with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75Äù Äì 10.75Äù tall); Gray dust jacket with photo of art exhibit & title in yellow lettering; 1998, The MIT Press; 400 pages; "The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art, " by Mary Anne Staniszewski.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. This is a very good hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket. Long ago released from a public library but bearing only a few marks. No card pockets or check-out slips, just a handstamp to the title-page with a 'Withdrawn' stamp on top of that. Otherwise very clean throughout. Illustrated in black & white. 10" square, 371 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
