The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art

by Mary Anne Staniszewski

Book Overview

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...

• 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"