Abstract
Modern modes of displaying art have wavered between historical re-creation and conceptual contextualization. Within art history, re-creations of the past and its environs, usually associated with the museology of the late nineteenth century, have now—with the development of digitized virtual realities and postmodern proclivities for the simulacrum—come back into favor. And in the museum, movements away from the blank, modernist wall have led to the dominance of a nostalgic, if not really historicist, form of display. In an ambitious exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, David H. Solkin, with the assistance of Anne Puetz, has produced an exciting show that touches on these broad issues and in so doing invites spectators to muse upon both the history of display and the status of historical knowledge in exhibition spaces.
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