Exhibition Matters : Contemporary Displays and Exhibition-Making Practices.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bianchi, Pamela, editor.

Meuris, Dr Wesley, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exhibitions.

Exhibition buildings.

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Bridges theory and practice to explore the impact of exhibition design on constructing the narrative of the exhibition.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1 Displays Matter(s)

Notes

References

2 The Illusions of Levitation in Museum Displays

Introduction

John Yeon

A. James Speyer

Lina Bo Bardi

Conclusion

3 Sense and Sensibility Jermayne MacAgy's Poetics of the Exhibition

Setting the mood

Transgressing taxonomies

Making things shine

Shifting common places

Spatializing concepts

4 In and Out of the Cabinet The Art of Exhibiting Nature and the Post-Anthropocene

Collecting and exhibiting nature

Exhibiting nature in the anthropocenic turn

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

5 Exhibition Adaptations Multimodal Narratives in Curatorial Practices

Curating American literary classics: A trilogy of exhibitions

Kafka's unfinished novels: A multimedia exhibition

Multimodal narratives and intermedial imagination

6 Reinventing the Contemporary Exhibition Space Novels, Domestic Space and Cinematic Cartography

The novel: An immaterial and ekphrastic space for exhibition

Immaterial and fluid exhibition spaces

Ekphrastic rhetoric. A spotlight on the text exhibition space

Domestic exhibition: Aesthetic space and fictional index

From domestic interiors to aesthetic spaces: Family resemblance, repetition and private spaces for self-creation

Fictional index: Narrative backdrop, memory theatre and containers of stories

The film: Cartography and the city as a memory space

Dynamic memory: Walking for fluid exhibition space

Polyphonic exhibition space: Double exposure, superimposition, sonic-visual maps

References.

7 Designing an Encounter Between the Materialities of Exhibition Design, Architecture and Curating

Creating narrative materialities: A matter of collaboration

Moments, spaces and scales of material encounters

8 The Interrelationship Between Architecture and Exhibition Dominik Lengyel and Catherine Toulouse

What is special about the communication of architecture in a museum?

A possible solution

The ideal church

The communication concept

Media

Additional mediality

Design as a process

Unexpected persistence of virtual spaces

9 Curating Adventure-Spaces1 Designing large digital heritage models where heritage is an active, open-ended process of meaning-making and the point cloud becomes not just a model of heritage but a space of heritage-making in its own right

Point clouds and captivating the attention of strangers

The scanner as a camera

Fidelity, authenticity. And deviancy

Rotation of the point cloud to facilitate serendipitous proximities

Site 01: Cleopatra's Needle, Embankment, London

Site 02: Commissioner's House, Chatham Historic Dockyard

Site 03: Portraits of Trees, Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site

10 Exhibition Designs as a Sculptural Practice A conversation with Wesley Meuris

11 Weaving Space, Choreographing the Gaze A conversation with Adrien Gardère

INDEX.

ISBN:

1-350-57557-7

1-350-57556-9

9781350575561

OCLC:

1559240533