'If the focus of modernist debates was the individual work of art, it is the exhibition that is the prime cultural carrier of contemporaneity. Set against the rise of the curator as an influential force in the contemporary art world, this volume underlines the crucial role of artists in questioning and shaping the phenomenon of the exhibition. The texts encompass exhibition design and form; exhibitions that are object-based, live or discursive; projects that no longer rely on a physical space to be visited in person; artists' responses to being curated; and their reflections on the potential of acting curatorially.' (From the back cover)

Exhibition
 is one of the Documents of Contemporary Art series, co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Other sourcebooks of the same series are also available in the Archive. For more details, please go to this page

With Biographical notes, bibliography and index. 
Alternative title

Documents of Contemporary Art

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Onsite

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REF.WHC
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2014

No of pages

238

ISBN / ISSN

9780854882250, 9780262526586

No of copies

1

Chapter headings

Introduction

Defining 'Exhibition'

In The Exhibition Moment

Exhibition Histories

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Exhibition