Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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The Scope of this Book |
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Video Art: A Framework of Development |
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Notes on the Book's Methodology |
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Chapter Summaries |
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Chapter 1: Defining the Classical Structure of the Art Museum: From the Louvre to MoMA |
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The Louvre in the Age of Louis XIV |
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Establishing a System of Display: Origins of the Display Narrative |
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A National Symbolic Display Centre: French Nationalism |
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American Nationalism and Capitalism Entwined: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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MoMA |
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Chapter 2: The Problematics of Display |
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Changing Art Museum Paradigms Within the Period of High Modernism |
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The Tate's Traditional Framework |
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Playgrounds of Disturbance: Graham, Nauman, and Hatoum |
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Chapter 3: The Problematic of Video Art |
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The Problematic of Acquisition |
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The Problematic of Exhibition |


