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Showing 1 to 20 of 363 for “"exhibitions"”.
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Queering the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions
… the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions expands the history of American art beyond its tightly policed borders to include curators, viewers, artists, and artworks as key players in contemporary queer exhibition surveys in U.S.-based museums. Exhibition histories are not the …
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Interpretation and visitors in two Islamic art exhibitions
… years there has been an increase is Islamic art exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Islamic art exhibition includes both reinstallations of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Often Islamic art exhibitions are equated with broader social and political contexts and infused …
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Discourse formation in architecture exhibitions - an oligoptical approach
… written for a series of international biennale exhibitions between 2012 and 2020. The spatial designs of the pavilions were conceived as embodied manifestoes rather than as supplements to the texts, so that the relationship between them has become the object of the study. In this way, …
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American Art Histories: Framing Race in Exhibitions, 1842-1876
In the mid to late nineteenth century, exhibitions in the United States presented histories of art by laying out sequences of objects. Paintings, sculptures, and prints were aligned or juxtaposed with so-called artifacts and specimens as well as plaster casts of classical sculpture in order to …
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Contagious History: Affect and Identification in Queer Public History Exhibitions
… of historical narratives and public history exhibitions, and questions traditional forms of expertise. This work highlights three factors that enable this form of public history: the encouragement of amateur historians; the use of objects in relationship-formation; and the creation of …
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Woven Kin: Exploring Representation and Collaboration in Navajo Weaving Exhibitions
<p>Following recent trends in scholarship that establish museums as complex sites where representations of Native American cultures are actively negotiated, this thesis explores the relationship between representational strategies and the employment of critical Indigenous methodologies by museum …
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Mexican art exhibitions in New York as cultural diplomacy, 1928-1932
… This project investigates the first standalone exhibitions of Mexican modern and popular arts in the U.S.—the Art Center’s 1928 Exhibition of Mexican Art and the American Federation of Arts’ 1930-32 “Mexican Arts”—as cultural diplomatic efforts. Using empirical evidence, this project reveals the …
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Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
… how various actors used the British Empire exhibitions of the interwar period to contest the privileges of whiteness found throughout the empire, demonstrating that imperial race relations were profoundly situational, even when focused on the maintenance of privilege. It attempts to outline …
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Moving Experiences: Traveling Museum Exhibitions and the Infrastructures of Cultural Globalization
In the wake of two world wars, traveling museum exhibitions were touted as a model for advancing peace, broadening the views of diverse publics by compelling museums across borders to share their treasures. In this dissertation, I examine how the establishment of a global infrastructure for museum …
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A study of the notions of immersive experience in museum based exhibitions
… the notions of immersive experience in museum exhibitions, and examines whether the communication of the exhibition content can be transmitted more effectively to visitors through the creation of an immersive environment. The study reviews the origins and changing interpretations of the term …
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Investigation of the presentation of Ainu identity in British museums and exhibitions
… identity is presented in British museums and exhibitions, evaluating displays and their curation. Analysing these institutions through a decolonial lens, I consider: the extent to which Ainu ontologies have shaped displays; how colonial history is presented; and current levels of Ainu-museum …
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Modernity, nationalism and global marginalisation: representing the nation in contemporary Taiwanese art exhibitions
… development of the most prestigious large- scale exhibitions of the Taipei Fine Arts Museums from its opening in 1983 until 2009, concentrating on the Trends of Modern Art in the R.O.C. series of the 1980s , the introduction of the Taipei Biennial in 1992, and the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice from …
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Exhibitions as communication: A study of the role and effectiveness of trade shows
… over some eight years. The research concerns exhibitions and trade fairs, and examines the communications issues thereof from both the exhibitors' viewpoint and the visitors' viewpoint.<br/><br/>The research was conducted from an interpretive viewpoint, using interviews and questionnaire …
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The choreography of display : experiential exhibitions in the context of museum practice and theory
… experience of constructing and viewing museum exhibitions. Specifically I have been interested in the way in which certain exhibits facilitate powerful emotional responses from their viewers. I suggest that the curators of these kinds of exhibitions employ strategies which not only choreograph …
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London Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, 1760-1782: The impact on landscape painting and its reception
The institution of annual exhibitions of modern British art has been accredited with the initiation of a consumer-led commercial market which obviated the need for patronage. I argue that the simplistic acceptance that exhibitions were successful in establishing a market for landscape painting …
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The House In The Museum Garden: Targeting Domestic Consumers In MoMA’s Architecture And Design Exhibitions
… (MoMA) promoted modern art and design through exhibitions. Exhibitions of the 1930s were marked by politically and socially minded intentions that aimed to solve modern problems through modern solutions. This continued into the early 1940s, though a shift occurred in the purpose of exhibitions …
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Developing experience : Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions, from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States
Following the work of German-American curator Alexander Dorner (1893-1957) from his early curatorial career in Niedersachsen to professorships in New England, this dissertation explores the intersections of Euro-American modernism and developing ideations of experience within aesthetic philosophy. …
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