Event Structures and Biennial Culture: Oreste at the Biennale

Over the century from 1895 to 1999, we can measure the impact of biennials on themselves, and on the emergence of increasingly social forms of contemporary art.  I argue that in their inheritance from world’s (and national) fairs, biennials were engines for the transfer of fairs’ “festal apparatus”...

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Main Author: Caroline A. Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: OBOE On Biennials and Other Exhibitions Associazione Culturale 2020-09-01
Series:OBOE
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Online Access:https://www.oboejournal.com/index.php/oboe/article/view/6