As has been said of the pyramids, that their construction is as much a monument to Egyptian administration as a triumph of ancient engineering, so does this show present both visual delight and a model of organizational innovation.
The problem of the counterfeit (and of fashion) was born with the Renais sance, with the dé structuration of the feudal order and the emergence of open competition at the level of distinctive signs… With the end of the bound sign, the reign of the
Over the last two decades, both installation and contemporary photography were empowered by a suspicion of the cult of the marketable art object — specifically, the commodity fetish. Yet, while historically contiguous, and often sharing a common audience, the strategies of the two modes are completely different.