Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art

by Charles Rick Green

Book Overview

This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444336657
• ISBN13: 9781444336658
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"