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