In a previous post I emphatically stated my interest for "a treatment about the esthetics of the modern exhibition space". One such a treatment is just being published by Yale University Press: Charlotte Klonk's Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000.
According to Brian Sholis in Frieze Magazine: "Thirty years ago, artist and writer Brian O'Doherty revealed some of the political and economic implications of the 'white cube'. It is, we now acknowledge, anything but a neutral container. While O'Doherty's polemic holds up well, it doesn't address at length how such design features as coloured walls, wainscotting and decorative furnishings were slowly excised from the typical gallery environment. Art historian Charlotte Klonk's limited but engaging study Spaces of Experience traces just this history." Promising indeed.
Here is the book at Amazon.
