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Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art
Anthony Gardner
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Paperback. This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. * Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s * Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Mediterranee in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York s Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the ... Read more
This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. * Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s * Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Mediterranee in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York s Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chicester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444336658
SKU
V9781444336658
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99-2
About Anthony Gardner
Charles Green is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Conceptualism to Postmodernism (2001) and Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94 (1995) and co-author of Framing Conflict: War, Peace and Aftermath (2014, with L. Brown and J. Cattapan). As Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the ... Read more
Reviews for Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art
This book will certainly become one of the first points of reference for audiences interested in the subject due to its critical heftiness. - Wiktor Komorowski, Immediations, 2016 vol.4, no.1