Mary Anne Staniszewski Books
Believing Is Seeing
Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman p...
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Signs of change
By Josh MacPhee, Dara Greenwald
"Drawn from an exhibition at Exit Art, a cultural center in New York City, Signs of change is a visual archive of more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera from...
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Alternative Histories
By Mary Anne Staniszewski, Lauren Rosati
A groundbreaking history of pioneering alternative art venues in New York where artists experimented, exhibited, and performed outside the white cube and the commercial mainstream.This groundbreaki...
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The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art
Art historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored what Mary Anne Staniszewski calls "the power of display." In this examination of installation design...
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