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"A fascinating survey of groundbreaking exhibitions from the 1980's through to now .. The selection shines with the inquiring intelligence and practical know-how that make Jens Hoffmann one of the most inventive of contemporary curators." -- Back cover.

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Main Authors: Hoffmann, Jens, 1974
Published: Thames & Hudson,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "A fascinating survey of groundbreaking exhibitions from the 1980's through to now .. The selection shines with the inquiring intelligence and practical know-how that make Jens Hoffmann one of the most inventive of contemporary curators." -- Back cover.
Carrier Form: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251) and index.
ISBN: 9780500239117 (hardback) :
0500239118 (hardback)
Index Number: N6486
CLC: J110.95-28
Call Number: J110.95-28/H711
Contents: Introduction: changing exhibitions -- Beyond the white cube : Sculpture projects Münster ; Places with a past: new site-specific art in Charleston ; inSITE ; Sonsbeek 93 ; Culture in action ; Prospect.1 New Orleans -- Artists as curators as artists : Freeze ; The Brooklyn Museum collection: the play of the unmentionable ; Mining the museum: an installation by Fred Wilson ; The museum as muse: artists reflect ; Mike Kelley: the uncanny -- Across the fields and beyond the disciplines : High & low: modern art and popular culture ; Cities on the move: contemporary Asian art on the turn of the
New forms : This is the show and the show is many things ; do it ; NowHere ; 50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and conflicts ; the dictatorship of the viewer ; 28th São Paulo Biennial: In living contact ; An unruly history of the readymade -- Others everywhere : The 1993 Whitney Biennial ; In a different light ; 31st Panorama of Brazilian Art: Mamõyguara opá mamõ pupé ; 11th International Istanbul Biennial: What keeps mankind alive? ; Phantom sightings: art after the Chicano movement -- Tomorrow's talents today ; No man's time ; Helter skelter: L.A. art in the 1990s ; Traffic ; Sensatio