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Volume one includes an extended foreword and preface, four essays, and statements by 44 artists; volume two has a fifth essay on the exhibition and installation shots. Subjects covered include the history of the exhibition and the Carnegie museum, curatorial rationale, architecture, postmodernism, hypertravel, language and linguistic theory, internationalism and transculturalism, metaculture, post-communism and contemporary Russian culture, contemporary museology, collection and display ideology. Contributors: Francis, Mark (Curator); Francis, Mark (Author); Cooke, Lynne (Curator); Cooke, Lynne (Interviewer); Cooke, Lynne (Author); Nanjo, Fumio (Author); Zinik, Zinovy (Author); Serra, Richard (Interviewee); Colquhoun, Alan (Interviewee); Asher, Michael (Artist); Asher, Michael (Author); Barry, Judith (Artist); Barry, Judith (Author); Boltanski, Christian (Artist); Boltanski, Christian (Author); Bourgeois, Louise (Artist); Bourgeois, Louise (Author); Cage, John (Artist); Cage, John (Author); Cragg, Tony (Artist); Cragg, Tony (Author); Deacon, Richard (Artist); Deacon, Richard (Author); Hamilton, Ann (Artist); Hamilton, Ann (Author); Hamilton, Richard (Artist); Hamilton, Richard (Author); Kabakov, Ilya (Artist); Kabakov, Ilya (Author); Kelley, Mike (Artist); Kelley, Mike (Author); Lum, Ken (Artist); Lum, Ken (Author); McCollum, Allan (Artist); McCollum, Allan (Author); McCracken, John (Artist); McCracken, John (Author); Miyajima, Tatsuo (Interviewee); Muñoz, Juan (Artist); Muñoz, Juan (Author); Nauman, Bruce (Artist); Nauman, Bruce (Author); Nordman, Maria (Artist); Nordman, Maria (Author); Paolini, Giulio (Artist); Paolini, Giulio (Author); Rollins, Tim + K.O.S. (Artist); Rollins, Tim + K.O.S. (Author); Serra, Richard (Artist); Serra, Richard (Author); Struth, Thomas (Artist); Struth, Thomas (Author); Sugimoto, Hiroshi (Interviewee); Taaffe, Philip (Interviewee); Wool, Christopher (Artist); Wagstaff, Sheena (Author); Gardner, Colin (Author); Johnston, Phillip M. (Pre