LIST OF PLATES = ⅺ
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS = xv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, INTRODUCTION = xxi
PART I: THE FUTURE OF HISTORY = 5
1. THE MUSEUM AND THE ‘AHISTORICAL’ EXHIBITION: the latest gimmick by the arbiters of taste, or an important cultural phenomenon?
2. BROKERING IDENTITIES: art curators and the politics of cultural representation
3. LARGE EXHIBITIONS: a sketch of a typology
4. FOR EXAMPLE, DOCUMENTA, OR, HOW IS ART HISTORY PRODUCED?
PART II: STAGING SPECTATORS = 79
5. THE EXHIBITIONARY COMPLEX
6. THE MUSEUM FLAT
7. NAMING NAMES: the art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt
PART III: GRAMMATIC ACTS = 157
8. LES IMMATERIAUX
9. EXHIBITION RHETORICS: material speech and utter sense
10. CREATING SPACES
11. THE DISCOURSE OF THE MUSEUM
PART IV: CURATORS OR CATERERS = 219
12. THE GREAT CURATORIAL DIM-OUT
13. FROM MUSEUM CURATOR TO EXHIBITION AUTEUR: inventing a singular position
14. CONSTRUCTING THE SPECTACLE OF CULTURE IN MUSEUMS
15. THE SHOW YOU LOVE TO HATE: a psychology of the mega-exhibition
16. FREE FALL?FREEZE FRAME: Africa, exhibitions, artists
PART V: SPATIAL PLAY = 295
17. THE ONE-PICTURE GALLERY
18. DISSENTING SPACES
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
20. THE GALLERY AS A GESTURE
21. POSTMODERNISM’S MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS
22. THE EXHIBITED REDISTRIBUTED: a case for reassessing space
PART VI: THE EXHIBITION CONDITION = 369
23. A VISUAL MACHINE: art installation and its modern archetypes
24. THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF DISSENT
25. MODERNISM, NATIONALISM AND BEYOND: a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art
26. IN AND OUT OF PLACE
27. WHAT’S IMPORTANT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART EXHIBITIONS?, SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY