Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-pfhbr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T11:47:11.814Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Printed shows: exhibitions and their catalogues during the last fifty years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Lutz Jahre*
Affiliation:
Kulturbüro und Stadtbücherei Flensburg Süderhofenden 40-42, D-24937 Flensburg, Germany
Get access

Abstract

In the last half-century exhibition catalogues have completely changed in appearance. Fifty years ago they were usually small pamphlets, which often simply listed the works of art in a show. Today catalogues are frequently substantial monographs, generally profusely illustrated. But a more complex change has also taken place, in line with major developments in the museum and exhibition world. This change can be illustrated by looking at some of the features of catalogues today, such as their production costs, function, and distribution.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. This is a revised and translated version of the articleKatalog und Ausstellung in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten”. Inform Museen im Rheinland no. 1 1998, p.25.Google Scholar
2. Chougnet, Jean-François. “Die Kunstpublikation in Frankreich: Verlage und Museen”. AKMB-news: Informational zu Kunst, Museum und Bibliothek vol. 3 Google Scholar
3. Roters, Eberhard. “Einleitung”. In: Roters, Eberhard, ed. Stationen der Moderne: Kataloge epochaler Kunstausstellungen in Deutschland 1910-1962. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung König, 1988. Commentary volume, p. 18.Google Scholar
4. For a more detailed view see Lutz Jahre. “Zur Geschichte des Ausstellungskataloges am Beispiel der publikationen von Pontus Hulten”. In: Jahre, Lutz. Das gedruckte Museum von Pontus Hulten. Kunstausstellungen und Hire Bücher. Hg. von der Kunstund Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ostfildern: Cantz, 1996, p.2956.Google Scholar
5. Morineau, Camille. “Un corps emblématique? Les catalogues d’expositions du Musée national d’art moderne”. Les cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne no. 56/57 (special issue “Du catalogue”) 1996, p.154177.Google Scholar
6. Lohkamp, Brigitte. “Kunstbuchverlage zwischen Kommerz und Vision”. In: Schmirber, Gisela and Mai, Ekkehard, eds. Kunst und Manipulation: die Moderne zwischen Markt und Meinung. München: Hans-Seidel-Stiftung, 1994, p.91.Google Scholar
7. Morineau, Camille, op.cit., p.158.Google Scholar
8. Hall, Thomas and Svensson, Ingrid, eds. Dada. Stockholm: Moderna Museets Vanner, 1966.Google Scholar
9. Meyer, Raimund Meyer et al. Dada global. Zurich: Limmat Verlag (für das Kunsthaus Zurich), 1994.Google Scholar
10. Mai, Ekkehard. Expositionen: Geschichte und Kritik des Ausstellungswesens. München; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1986.Google Scholar
11. Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Kunstmuseen in der Krise: Chancen, Gefährdungcn, Aufgaben in den mageren Jahren. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1993.Google Scholar
12. Tutanchamun. Mainz: von Zabern, 1980. [Exhibition: Berlin, Agyptisches Museum der Staatl.Museen Preuss.Kulturbesitz, 16 Februar-26 Mai 1980; Kölnisches Stadtmuseum 21 Juni-19 Oktober 1980.]Google Scholar
13. Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte-Kunst-Kultur. Stuttgart, 1977-1979. 5 volumes. [Exhibition: Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, 1977.]Google Scholar
14. The quote comes from Brigitte Lohkamp, op.cit., 1994, p.8996.Google Scholar
15. The situation in France is described by Jean- François Chougnet, op.cit., 1997, p.38.Google Scholar