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Re-reading the Manual Of Travelling Exhibitions
Edition 76135 – Books from the HfG Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Andreas Müller/Lydia Kähny/Sophie Lichtenberg/Aaron Werbick/Maxim Weirich

247 pp.
reproductions from the original and 20 further illustrations
thread-sewn paperback



Leipzig November, 2018
ISBN: 9783959051361
Edition Number: 1

Width: 23.5 cm
Length: 31 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
Andreas Müller, Lydia Kähny, Sophie Lichtenberg, Aaron Werbick, Maxim Weirich

Designer
Lena Thomaka, Johannes Hucht

The Manual of Travelling Exhibitions published by UNESCO in 1953 is a handbook on organizing touring exhibitions. Aimed at museums and other public institutions, it formulates a “grammar” of how to exhibit, ranging from organizational questions to reflections on exhibition design. From today’s perspective the manual reads like the manifesto of a modernity whose continuity was still unbroken in the immediate post-war period. This extensively annotated reprint of the Manual of Travelling Exhibitions is intended, on the one hand, to contextualize and critically examine the historical source and, on the other, to show different ways of updating it. The contents of the manual share the same importance as the inherent gaps it contains, the book’s design, and the photographic logic of the images.
The book project was developed within the Department of Exhibition Design and Scenography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design under the direction of Andreas Müller and Aaron Werbick.

Text: Martin Beck, Clémentine Deliss, Kurt Eckert, Jochen Eisenbrand, Rike Franke, Helene Hermann, Lydia Kähny, Tina Köhler, Moritz Küng, Sophie Lichtenberg, Jonathan Maho, Vanessa Joan Müller, Andreas Müller, Jennifer Tobias, Gitte Villesen, Nader Vossoughian, Florian Walzel, Grant Watson, Joanna Weddell, Maxim Weirich, Aaron Werbick

 
 

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