Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index
Contents:
Foreword / Jonathan M. Woodham Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: an Introduction / Harriet Atkinson, Sarah A. Lichtman, and Verity Clarkson Universal Civilization and National Cultures: Producing Israel at the Venice Biennale, 1948-1952 / Chelsea Haines Salvaging through Merchandising: America's Vietnamese Craft Diplomacy on Display in the US in 1956 and 1958 / Jennifer Way 'A Slightly Exotic Country': Rethinking Poland's Identity through Display at the 11th Milan Triennale, 1957 / Katarzyna Jeżowska Self-management on Display: Negotiating the Visions of Yugoslav Socialist Modernity at Expo 58 and Porodica i domaćinstvo Exhibitions / Rujana Rebernjak 'One of the Puzzles of the Exhibition': A Misunderstood Cittadina, Neoliberty, and the Italian Display at Brussels Expo 58 / Rika Devos and Serena Pacchiani Assembling Smallness: The United States Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, 1961 / Nushelle de Silva Painting from the Pacific and Artistic Exchange across the Pacific, 1961 / Ian Cooke 'A Wholly American Plastic Package': Transnationalism, Technology, and Theology at The Vatican Pavilion in the 1964-65 New York World's Fair / Ethan Robey 'The Gentle Art of Cookery': Exhibiting Transnational Anglo-Russian Diplomatic History During the Cold War, 1967 / Verity Clarkson From FESMAN '66 to FESTAC '77: Competing Curatorial Strategies for African American Art at Pan-African Festivals / Lindsay Twa Designing Stability: Hong Kong's Pavilion at Local Expositions and Expo 70 in Osaka / Daniel Cooper and Juliana Kei Pharaoh Diplomacy: The Soft Power of the Treasures of Tutankhamun / Mario Schulze Plastic Diplomacy: An Environmental Approach to Transnational Exhibitions / Joana Meroz
Summary:
"With an impressively global scope, this book explores approaches to the study of exhibitions within and beyond the disciplinary boundaries of art and design history. After World War II, exhibition spaces such as museums and fairs and festivals were increasingly used as locations for the exercise of 'soft power', for displays of cultural diplomacy between nations and for addressing social and political contestation. Featured case studies include explorations of the life and work of Misha Black, Belgo-American exchanges during the Cold War, Israel's appearance at the 1948-1952 Venice Biennale and the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair"-- Provided by publisher