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00Mary Anne Staniszewski approved of the Museum of ModernArt’s 01i00Machine Art 02i00show and the 01i00Useful Objects 02i00exhibition in herarticle, “Installations for Good Design and Good Taste,” in 01i00The Power of Display: A History ofExhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art.02i00 The reason was thatthe show had “Timeless beauty.” In addition, viewers could enjoy the show veryeasily and comfortably­­ as the author noted, “the reviewers took delight inthe fact that visitors could touch, move, and even sit in the exhibits.”01a00[1]02a00Since those objects were cheap and useful, the audience must have wanted totake advantage of the show to purchase products that attracted them. 02br
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00However, did these facts really make the show “gorgeous” asthe author remarked? First of all, “Timeless beauty” is not possible. WhenModern designers were fascinated that machinery work could be simple butbeautiful, It might be true. Nowadays, no one will go to an exhibition to seemass-produce household products or “useful objects.” The time when “low-priced,machine-made, mass-produced household articles” were so amazing and novel thatthey should be exhibited in a gallery has gone. The author wrote as if theconcept of the exhibit would last forever, saying “timeless beauty.” 02br
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00Second, the exhibition might have been a good fair for salesbut not any more than that. The author mentioned that viewers did not followmuseum codes of behavior in order to try the products and see the price. Thisis what consumers do to purchase products in department stores or supermarkets.It is questionable what the audience at the exhibition considered the show tobe. Undoubtedly, manufacturers also did ask for exhibiting their products atthe museum (the author did not mention if the museum accepted their requests). If the show was a success in terms of practical business, itcould have been held in a department store not a museum.02br
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01a00[1]02a00 Mary AnneStaniszewski, “Installations for Good Design and Good Taste,” 01i00The Power of Display: A History ofExhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art 02i00(Cambridge, Ma: MITPress, 1988), 167.02br
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