Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition (Paperback, Expanded)

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Thomas McEvilley

I. Notes on the Gallery Space
A Fable of Horizontal and Vertical ... Modernism ... The Properties of the
Ideal Gallery ... The Salon ... The Easel Picture ... The Frame as
Editor ... Photography . .. Impressionism . .. The Myth of the Picture
Plane .. . Matisse .. . Hanging .. . The Picture Plane as Simile ... The Wall
As Battleground and "Art" ... The Installation Shot ...

II. The Eye and the Spectator
Another Fable ... Five Blank Canvasses .. . Paint, Picture Plane,
Objects ... Cubism and Collage ... Space ... The Spectator ... The
Eye ... Schwitters's Merzbau . .. Schwitters's Performances .. . Happenings
And Environments . .. Kienholz, Segal, Kaprow . .. Hanson, de Andrea ...
Eye, Spectator, and Minimalism ... Paradoxes of Experience ...
Conceptual and Body Art ...

III. Context as Content
The Knock at the Door ... Duchamp's Knock ... Ceilings ... 1.200 Bags of
Coal . .. Gestures and Projects ... The Mile of String . . . Duchamp's
"Body" .. . Hostility to the Audience ... The Artist and the Audience ...
The Exclusive Space . . . The Seventies .. . The White Wall . . . The White
Cube ... Modernist Man .. . The Utopian Artist ... Mondrian's Room ...
Mondrian, Duchamp, Lissitzky ...

IV. The Gallery as a Gesture
Yves Klein's Le Vide ... Arman's Le Plein ... Warhol's Airborne Pillows ...
Buren's Sealed Gallery ... Barry's Closed Gallery ... Les Levine's White
Light ... The Christos' Wrapped Museum ...

Afterword