Designing modern art and culture: A history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Title
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Designing modern art and culture: A history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Identifier
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AAI9630511
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identifier
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9630511
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Creator
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Staniszewski, Mary Anne.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Linda Nochlin
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Date
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1995
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History
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Abstract
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"Designing Modern Art and Culture: A History of the Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art" examines an aspect of modern art history that has been, generally speaking, officially and collectively forgotten--installation design as an aesthetic medium and historical category. The dissertation presents a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art, a paradigm of modern aesthetic institutions within what might be called the contemporary art apparatus.;In the dissertation, exhibition installations are treated as representations and are analyzed in terms of "conscious" and "unconscious" aesthetic, social, historical, and political agendas and concerns. The first chapter sets up a historical and theoretical framework for discussing installation design and introduces it as a historical category, a medium in its own right, and an important aspect of the international avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Chapters two through five feature paradigmatic exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art from the MoMA's inception in 1929 to 1993. Each of these chapters focuses on a particular type of exhibition and incorporates a discussion of an institutional discourse other than that of the modern art museum. For example, chapter three survey's MoMAs architecture and design exhibitions in conjunction with an analysis of the history and display techniques of the commercial sector and the department store. Chapter six concludes with an examination of several MoMA exhibition installations from the 1980s and 1990s that summarizes and sets in relief the issues explored in the dissertation.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy Restricted.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.