Thinking about exhibitions / edited by Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne

List of plates -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Nairne -- I. The future of history: 1. The museum and the ‘ahistorical’ exhibition: the latest gimmick by the arbiters of taste, or an important cultural phenomenon? / Debora J. Meijers ; 2. Brokering identities: art curators and the politics of cultural representation / Mari Carmen Ramírez ; 3. Large exhibitions: a sketch of a typology / Jean-Marc Poinsot ; 4. For example, documenta, or, how is art history produced? / Walter Grasskamp -- II. Staging spectators: 5. The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett ; 6. The museum flat / Johanne Lamoureux ; 7. Naming names: the art of memory and the names Project AIDS Quilt / Peter S. Hawkins -- III. Grammatic acts: 8. Les immatériaux / Jean-François Lyotard ; 9. Exhibition rhetorics: material speech and utter sense / Bruce W. Ferguson ; 10 Creating spaces / Gerald McMaster ; 11. The discourse of the museum / Mieke Bal -- IV. Curators or caterers: 12. The great curatorial dim-out / Lawrence Alloway ; 13. From museum curator to exhibition auteur: inventing a singular position / Nathalie Heinich, Michael Pollak ; 14. Constructing the spectacle of culture in museums / Ivan Karp, Fred Wilson ; 15. The show you love to hate: a psychology of the mega-exhibition / John Miller ; 16. Free fall - freeze frame: Africa, exhibitions, artists / Clémentine Deliss -- V. Spatial play: 17. The one-picture gallery / Valery Petrovich Sazonov ; 18. Dissenting spaces / Judith Barry ; 19. Function of architecture: notes on work in connection with the places where it is installed taken between 1967 and 1975, some of which are specially summarized here / Daniel Buren ; 20. The gallery as a gesture / Brian O'Doherty ; 21. Postmodernisms museum without walls / Rosalind E. Krauss ; 22. The exhibited redistributed: a case for reassessing space / Reesa Greenberg -- VI. The exhibition condition: 23. A visual machine: are installation and its modern archetypes / Germano Celant ; 24. The institutionalization of dissent / Sandy Nairne ; 25. Modernism, nationalism and beyond: a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art / Diana Nemiroff ; 26. In and out of place / Andrea Fraser ; 27. What's important about the history of modern art exhibitions? / Martha Ward -- Select Bibliography -- Index