Exhibition experiments

Macdonald, Sharon. (Added Author). Basu, Paul. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9781405130769 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9781405130776 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1405130768 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1405130776 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 254 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : experiments in exhibition, ethnography, art, and science / Paul Basu and Sharon Macdonald -- 1. Legibility and affect : museums as new media / Michelle Henning -- 2. The labyrinthine aesthetic in contemporary museum design / Paul Basu -- 3. Exhibition as film / Mieke Bal -- 4. Experimenting with representation : Iconoclash and Making things public / Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour -- 5. Walking on a storyboard, performing shared incompetence : exhibiting "science" in the public realm / Xperiment! - Bernd Kraeftner, Judith Kroell and Isabel Warner -- 6. From Capital to Enthusiasm : an exhibitionary practice / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska -- 7. The politics of display : Ann-Sofi Siden's Warte Mal!, art history and social documentary / Laura Bear, Clare Carolin, Griselda Pollock and Ann-Sofi Siden / Edited by Clare Carolin and Cathy Haynes -- 8. From exhibiting to installing ethnography : experiments at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1999-2005 / Nuno Porto -- 9. Raising specters : welcoming hybrid phantoms at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry / Anne Lorimer -- 10. Exposing expo : exhbition entrepreneurship and experimental reflexivity in late modernity / Alexa Farber.