Material Memory: Exhibitionary Rhetorics and Politics (Leaders: Barbara Biesecker and Kenneth Cmiel)

The co-leaders of this seminar have linked together essays in what, we hope, are useful kinds of ways. Our intention is to discuss the essays as units, exploring the various tensions made visible by such groupings.

Bibliography

Wonder and Its Enemies: Early Modern and Modern

Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, "Chapter Seven: Wonders of Art, Wonders of Nature" in Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998.

Stephen Greenblatt, "Resonance and Wonder" in Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Eds. Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press/Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Susan Buck-Morss, "Envisioning Capital: Political Economy on Display" in Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances. Eds. Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen. Seattle: Dia Center for the Arts (Bay Press), 1995.

Debating High Modernity

Tony Bennett, "The Exhibitionary Complex" in The Birth of the Museum. New York: Routledge, 1995 [also in Thinking about Exhibitions. Eds. Reesa Greenberg, Bruce Ferguson and Sandy Nairne. New York: Routledge, 1996].

Donna Haraway, "Teddy Bear Patriarchy" in Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Michael Schudson, "Paper Tigers," Lingua Franca 7, 6 (August 1997).

Late Modernity/Postmodernity

Theodor Adorno, "Valery Proust Museum" in Prisms. Cambridge: MIT, 1981.

Jean-François Lyotard, "Les Immatériaux" in Thinking about Exhibitions. Eds. Reesea Greenberg, Bruce Ferguson and Sandy Nairne. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Toby Miller, "Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia" in Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

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