The Problematic of Video Art in the Museum, 1968–1990
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

The Scope of this Book

1

Video Art: A Framework of Development

4

Notes on the Book's Methodology

22

Chapter Summaries

23

Chapter 1: Defining the Classical Structure of the Art Museum: From the Louvre to MoMA

39

The Louvre in the Age of Louis XIV

41

Establishing a System of Display: Origins of the Display Narrative

44

A National Symbolic Display Centre: French Nationalism

52

American Nationalism and Capitalism Entwined: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

56

MoMA

60

Chapter 2: The Problematics of Display

85

Changing Art Museum Paradigms Within the Period of High Modernism

87

The Tate's Traditional Framework

100

Playgrounds of Disturbance: Graham, Nauman, and Hatoum

108

Chapter 3: The Problematic of Video Art

129

The Problematic of Acquisition

131

The Problematic of Exhibition

136