Exhibiting outside the academy, salon and biennial, 1775-1999: alternative venues for display

Abstract

"In recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies, and major exhibitions. There has been, however, little to no sustained interest in the histories of alternative exhibitions with the notable exception of those publications that deal with situations involving major artists or those who would become so. The present volume uses and contextualizes eleven case studies to advance some overarching themes and commonalities among alternative exhibitions in the long modern period fromt the late eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries and beyond. These include the issue of control in the interrelation and elision of the roles of artist and curator, and the relationship of such alternative exhibitions to the dominant modes, structures of display, and cultural ideology."