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Show time : the 50 most influential exhibitions of contemporary art / Jens Hoffmann.

Author/creator Hoffmann, Jens, 1974- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., [2014]
Description256 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 27 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction: Changing exhibitions -- Beyond the white cube -- Sculpture projects Münster -- Places with a past: New site-specific art in Charleston -- inSITE -- Sonsbeek 93 -- Culture in action -- Prospect.1 New Orleans -- Artists as curators as artists -- Freeze -- The Brooklyn Museum collection: The play of the unmentionable -- Mining the museum: An installation by Fred Wilson -- The museum as muse: Artists reflect -- Mike Kelley: The uncanny -- Across the fields and beyond the disciplines -- High & Low: Modern art and popular culture -- Cities on the move: Contemporary Asian art on the turn of the 21st century -- Laboratorium -- What if: Art on the verge of architecture and design -- Century city: Art and culture in the modern metropolis -- New lands -- Magiciens de la Terre -- Cocido y Crudo -- 2nd Johannesburg Biennial: Trade routes - History and geography -- The short century: Independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945-1994 -- After the Wall: Art and culture in Post-communist Europe -- Biennial years -- Manifesta 1-9: European Biennial of Contemporary Art -- documenta X -- 24th São Paulo Biennial -- documenta 11 -- 7th Lyon Biennial for Contemporary Art (It happened tomorrow) -- 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: Of mice and men -- 9th International Istanbul Biennial: Istanbul -- dOCUMENTA (13).
Contents New forms -- This is the show and the show is many things -- do it -- NowHere -- 50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and conflicts - The dictatorship of the viewer -- 28th São Paulo Biennial : In living contact -- An unruly history of the readymade -- Others everywhere -- The 1993 Whitney Biennial -- In a different light -- 31st Panorama of Brazilian art: Mamõyguara Opá Mamõ Pupé -- 11th International Istanbul Biennial: What keeps mankind alive? -- Phantom sightings: Art after the Chicano movement -- Tomorrow's talents today -- No Man's time -- Helter skelter: L.A. art in the 1990s - Traffic -- Sensation: Young British artists from the Saatchi Collection -- Freestyle -- History -- Inside the visible: An elliptical traverse of 20th century art in, of, and from the feminine -- Reconsidering the object of art: 1965-1975 -- Out of actions: Between performance and the object, 1949-1979 -- Global conceptualism: Points of origin, 1950s-1980s -- WACK! Art and the feminist revolution -- Talking about exhibitions: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Massimiliano Gioni, Mary Jane Jacob, Maria Lind, Jessica Morgan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adriano Pedrosa in conversation with Jens Hoffmann.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013039212
ISBN9781938922336 (hardcover)
ISBN1938922336 (hardcover)

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