What Are Exhibitions For?: Daniels, Inge. What Are Exhibitions for? An Anthropological Approach. Photography by Susan Andrews. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019; 230 pp.; ISBN, hdbk.: 978-1-3500-6535-2, paper: 978-1-3500-6539-0, ePDF: 978-1-3500-6536-9, eBook: 978-1-300-6537-6

The book is dense with Susan Andrews's photographs of the exhibition, the visitors, and the post-exhibition journey of the objects. As befits its open-endedness Daniels does not draw one final conclusion as to whether the exhibition was successful or not in transforming the stereotypes that visitors had of Japanese domesticity. i challenges perceptions of contemporary exhibitions by a reversal of power from the curator to the visitor, thus looking at what exhibitions could be - "technologies of the imagination.". [Extracted from the article]