Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries is published

Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries

Harriet’s new book, co-edited with Dr Verity Clarkson (Brighton) and Dr Sarah Lichtman (Parsons The New School) is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges Through Art, Architecture, and Design 1945-1985 contains 13 essays, each exploring transnational exchanges transacted through exhibitions.

Contents:

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Foreword, Jonathan M. Woodham (University of Brighton, UK)
Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: An Introduction, Harriet Atkinson and Verity Clarkson (University of Brighton, UK), and Sarah A. Lichtman (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA)

1. Universal Civilization and National Cultures: Producing Israel at the Venice Biennale, 1948–1952, Chelsea Haines (Arizona State University, USA)
2. Salvaging through Merchandising: America’s Vietnamese Craft Diplomacy on Display in the USA in 1956 and 1958, Jennifer Way (University of North Texas, USA)
3. “A Slightly Exotic Country”: Poland’s Contentious Debut at the 11th Milan Triennale,1957, Katarzyna Jezowska (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
4. Self-management on Display: Negotiating the Visions of Yugoslav Socialist Modernity at Expo 58 and Porodica i domacinstvo Exhibitions, Rujana Rebernjak (London College of Communication, UAL, UK)
5. “One of the Puzzles of the Exhibition”: A Misunderstood Cittadina, Neoliberty, and the Italian Display at Brussels Expo 58, Rika Devos and Serena Pacchiani (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
6. Assembling Smallness: The United States Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, 1961, Nushelle de Silva (MIT, USA)
7. Painting from the Pacific and Artistic Exchange across the Pacific, 1961, Ian Cooke (Independent Scholar, USA)
8. “A Wholly American Plastic Package”: Transnationalism, Technology, and Theology at The Vatican Pavilion in the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair, Ethan Robey (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
9. “The Gentle Art of Cookery”: Exhibiting Transnational Anglo-Russian Diplomatic History During the Cold War, 1967, Verity Clarkson (University of Brighton, UK)
10. From FESMAN ’66 to FESTAC ’77: Competing Curatorial Strategies for African-American Art at Pan-African Festivals, Lindsay Twa (Augustana University, USA)
11. Designing Stability: Hong Kong’s Pavilion at Expo 70 and Local Expositions, Daniel Cooper (Columbia University, USA) and Juliana Kei (Liverpool, UK)
12. Pharaoh Diplomacy: The Soft Power of the Treasures of Tutankhamun, Mario Schulze (Zürich University of the Arts, Switzerland)
13. A “Tropic-Proof Container Exhibition”: The Role of Environmental Factors in Configuring Design, a Dutch Case Study, Joana Meroz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)