Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries

Transnational Exchanges through Art, Architecture, and Design 1945-1985

Harriet Atkinson, Verity Clarkson, Sarah A. Lichtman, Harriet Atkinson, Verity Clarkson, Sarah A. Lichtman

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781350088498
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Design General

After World War II, museum and gallery exhibitions, industrial and trade fairs, biennials, triennials, festivals and world's fairs increasingly came to be used as locations for the exercise of "soft power, " for displays of cultural diplomacy between nations and as spaces for addressing areas of social and political contestation. Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries opens with a substantial introduction to the key debates, followed by case studies that advance the field of exhibition histories both geographically and methodologically, focusing on postwar transnational exchange and the wider networks engendered through exhibitions. Chapters trace relations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific, and the United States of America, drawing on a range of approaches and perspectives, principally from art and design history but also from social, economic and political history, and museum studies. Featured case studies include the presentation of African-American Art at FESMAN '66 and FESTAC '77, the US's 1961 Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, Israel's early appearances at the Venice Biennale, the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, and Hong Kong's Pavilion at Expo 70 in Tokyo.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: An Introduction
• 1 Universal Civilization and National Cultures: Producing Israel at the Venice Biennale, 1948–1952
• 2 Salvaging Through Merchandising: America’s Vietnamese Craft Diplomacy on Display in the US in 1956 and 1958
• 3 “A Slightly Exotic Country”: Poland’s Contentious Debut at the 11th Milan Triennale, 1957
• 4 Self-Management on Display: Negotiating the Visions of Yugoslav Socialist Modernity at Expo 58 and Porodica i domaćinstvo Exhibitions
• 5 “One of the Puzzles of the Exhibition”: A Misunderstood Cittadina, Neoliberty, and the Italian Display at Brussels Expo 58
• 6 Assembling Smallness: The United States Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, 1961
• 7 Painting from the Pacific and Artistic Exchange Across the Pacific, 1961
• 8 “A Wholly American Plastic Package”: Transnationalism, Technology, and Theology at the Vatican Pavilion in the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair
• 9 “The Gentle Art of Cookery”: Exhibiting Transnational Anglo-Russian Diplomatic History During the Cold War, 1967
• 10 From FESMAN ’66 to FESTAC ’77: Competing uratorial Strategies for African-American Art at Pan-African Festivals
• 11 Designing Stability: Hong Kong’s Pavilion at Expo 70 and Local Expositions
• 12 Pharaoh Diplomacy: The Soft Power of the Treasures of Tutankhamun
• 13 A “Tropic-Proof Container Exhibition”: The Role of Environmental Factors in Configuring Design, a Dutch Case Study
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Copyright