creating believing exhibition architecture

books:

Dennis Adams: The Architecture of Amnesia
Mary Anne Staniszewski

Archer Fields Pr, 1990

This survey documents Adam?s explorations of the unstable relationship between image, memory, and architectural form. Monograph with text by Mary Anne Staniszewski which documents the work of the artist from 1979 through 1989. 112 pp., 30 color plates, 61 black and white reproductions.

The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art
Mary Anne Staniszewski

The MIT Press, 1998

Art historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored what Mary Anne Staniszewski calls "the power of display." In this groundbreaking examination of installation design as an aesthetic medium and cultural practice, Staniszewski offers the first history of exhibitions at the most powerful and influential modern art museum?The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Focusing on over two hundred photographs of ...

Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art

8 reviews
Mary Anne Staniszewski

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995

Refreshing take on Art
First of all, I find that most of the reviews of this book are one star because the readers didnt agree with Staniszewski's ideas, however they ignored how well written this book is. She takes the way we typically view "art" and shows us how fraudulent it is. In doing so she challenges not only are view of art, but also our view of the world around us. Even if you dont like her ideas its no ...