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 E-mail: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: Eugene Dillenburg <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:50 AM 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 > > [log in to unmask] > 651-221-4706 > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).