"An Exhibition" And "a Country"

Art exhibition as major institution of art production has already be an indispensable part in a whole national art culture. Its movement directly connect to the national art capital what its corporation, positive cycle of art ecology, public life’s cultural development, and how to shape the country’s cultural identity. The Whitney Biennial constructs and conveys the America national identity, value and dream through art curatorial and exhibition. According to the art cases, the dissertation study from Biennial for the research of relationships between America contemporary art production institution and national cultural structure. It is attempt to, on the one hand, present relatively mutual exhibit management institution, on the other hand, to discovery relationships among the nature of nation, national art, cultural development and value.The dissertation divide into four parts:American nature in Whitney Biennial, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s heritage, Whitney in1993, and today American art. The nature discussion start from American nature originate in native art, analyze the relationships among the art and national culture, politic, public, and contemporary artist; the second chapter main to discovery the establishment reasons of Biennial, and important figures who devoted to exhibition; the next aim to interpret how American art present his nature, especially some controversial cases and works’study which discussion about national awareness behind art affairs and works. The last chapter takes the Whitney biennial as focus point for step into future, showing the inmate relationships between Station national cultural life and contemporary art."Exhibition and Nation" as one open topic that was doomed the study’s scope and extension. The dissertation take art as theme, accompany with politics, sociology, anthropology and so on,thus combing the relationships between exhibit institution and national art, accordingly, the dissertation refer to theory study, history study, comparative study, intensive reading of reading, early warning analysis, icon interpretation, and style study etc., in order to get more effectively result of study.