Documenta X. Short Guide.
The last documenta of the twentieth century was the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David. As might have been expected, she was awaited in Kassel with skepticism. Catherine David’s intellectual approach to this major exhibition— whose meaning and purpose she examined in the catalogue— and the critical assessment of the political, social, economic, and cultural issues of the contemporary globalized world for which she appealed, prompted fears about the autonomy of art in advance of the exhibition.