Eugene,
I have often consulted the following book:
Thinking about exhibitions / edited by Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson,
and Sandy Nairne.
London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
This book with various scholarly articles may cover many of areas of your
interests. It also has a very rich bibliography and useful index to refer.
It contains 27 papers as follows:

Introduction / Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne
-- 1. The Museum and the 'Ahistorical' Exhibition: the latest gimmick by the
arbiters of taste, or an important cultural phenomenon? / Debora J. Meijers
-- 2. Brokering Identities: art curators and the  politics of cultural
representation / Mari Carmen Ramirez
-- 3. Large Exhibitions: a sketch of a typology / Jean-Marc Poinsot
-- 4. For Example, Documenta, or, How is Art History Produced? / Walter
Grasskamp
-- 5. The Exhibitionary Complex / Tony Bennett
-- 6. TheMuseum Flat / Johanne Lamoureux
-- 7. Naming Names: the art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt /
Peter S. Hawkins
-- 8. Les Immateriaux / Jean-Francois Lyotard
-- 9. Exhibition Rhetorics: material speech and utter sense / Bruce W.
Ferguson
-- 10. Creating Spaces / Gerald McMaster
-- 11. The Discourse of the Museum / Mieke Bal
-- 12. The Great Curatorial Dim-Out / Lawrence Alloway
-- 13. From Museum Curator to Exhibition Auteur: inventing a singular
position / Nathalie Heinich and Michael Pollak
-- 14. Constructing the Spectacle of Culture in Museums / Ivan Karp and Fred
Wilson
-- 15.The Show You Love to Hate: a psychology of the mega-exhibition / John
Miller
-- 16.Free Fall - Freeze Frame: Africa, exhibitions, artists / Clementine
Deliss
-- 17. The One-Picture Gallery / Valery Petrovich Sazonov
-- 18. Dissenting Spaces / Judith Barry
-- 19. Function of Architecture: notes on work in connection with the places
where it is installed taken between 1967 and 1975, some of which are
specially summarized here /Daniel Buren
-- 20. The Gallery as a Gesture / Brian O'Doherty
-- 21. Postmodernism's Museum without Walls / Rosalind E. Krauss
-- 22. The Exhibited Redistributed: a case for reassessing space / Reesa
Greenberg
-- 23. A Visual Machine: art installation and its modern archetypes /
Germano Celant
-- 24. The Institutionalization of Dissent / Sandy Nairne
-- 25. Modernism, Nationalism and Beyond: a critical history of exhibitions
of FirstNations art / Diana Nemiroff
-- 26. In and Out of Place / Andrea Fraser
-- 27. What's  Important About the History of Modern Art Exhibitions? /
Martha Ward

I hope it can be of your help.

Ikuko Inaba
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Subject: Books / articles on Exhibit Development


> Please forgive any cross-postings.
>
> A colleague has asked if I knew of any books on exhibit development.  I
don't know
> of any specifically on this topic, though Serrell's "Exhibit Labels: An
Interpretive
> Approach" does give a lot of good background info.
>
> Does anyone know of any books on exhibit development?  Or, lacking that,
any
> good articles I could track down?  Thanks in advance,
>
> Eugene Dillenburg
> Exhibit Developer
> Science Museum of Minnesota
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