Spectacle

The Spectacle

The Spectacle

Introduction

The Spectacles basically means referencing something as a striking or remarkable performance, scene, view, image, event or others; something that can be seen or viewed as a remarkable or of impressive nature. There are many spectacles in modern cultures that can be seen in everyday life as well. Many authors have covered the cultural, historical aspects of art in their writings and emphasize the importance of their spectacle view.

Discussion

The Power of Display: The History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art

'The Power of Display' as called by Mary Anne Staniszewski, was traditionally ignored by art historians when they implicitly accepted the autonomy of the art work. The museum of Modern Art in New York is referred by Stainiszewski as the most dominant and significant museum of modern art. The writer depicts the true meaning of this spectacle art work and focused on the hundreds of photographs which are visually rich but lack the sincere exhibit of history.

The installations are creations that evident the values, politics, ideology, and aesthetic obviously. The writer of the book analysis different display techniques used in department stores, non-Western art galleries, natural history museums, and the exhibitions of international avant-gardes of the first half century. This can make a person see the explicit and the covert meaning found in exhibitions.

When think about these splendid art works a person may think about the viewers who do different types of installations 'creates'? The sense and response to different objects, images, artefacts, or buildings can how come be affected by the exhibition's design? How the viewer's experience of cultural rituals of museum can be affected by the installations? Or how an exhibition design of amnesia regarding history can affect the art history or art world and cultural memories?

Through the analysis of exhibition the art works do not just stand alone, rather get the true meaning that they holds and the context in which we should view them. The sparsely hung works, modern framing, and the pale walls are a big break from the gold painted, gathered-up, and salon style demonstrations, and these different types of museum's ties to the International Avant-Garde and the National Covenant during WWII. The museum become more educational or instructive after the rise of conceptual art in 1960s, however, the turn exhibitions have taken place after 1970s are little disappointing because they makes art seem more autonomous in relation to culture.

Today the visitors in typical art museum are just habitual of seeing single paintings or may be the group of art work which hangs on pristine walls. But as Staniszewski indicates that in this mesmerizing examination of exhibition designs at the Museum of Modern Art, these concepts are the part themselves, that made MoMA modern and advance. If the key exhibitions at MoMA are traced from its creation through the 1990s, it can be seen that how the concept of modern installation of art advanced in Europe and has been transferred to ...