Past Imperfect : A Museum Looks at Itself
  • reference book
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • loose card[s]
  • black-and-white & color
  • 31 x 23 cm.
  • 80 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1565841662

Past Imperfect : A Museum Looks at Itself

Donna De Salvo, Trudy C. Kramer, Maurice Berger, Alan Wallach, Judith Barry, Ellen Williams

Past Imperfect : A Museum Looks at Itself

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Retrospective exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held August 8 - November 11, 1992. "Museums are made to be looked at by others, but what happens when a museum looks at itself? Donna De Salvo has choreographed just such an event in 'A Museum Looks at Itself,' an admirably ambitious exhibition that excavates the pictures, powers, objects, and objections that comprise and construct a cultural institution." -- review on jacket flap, Barbara Kruger. With essays by Trudy C. Kramer, Donna De Salvo, Maurice Berger, Alan Wallach, Judith Barry, Ellen Williams. Includes detailed time-line of museums' history and exhibitions, as well as a complete exhibition checklist and select bibliography.

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