| Description |
1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Series |
Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective Ser |
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Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Staging the Temporary: The Fragile Character of Space -- Camilla Murgia -- I: The Department Store -- 1. "One Need Be Neither a Shopper Nor a Purchaser to Enjoy:" Ephemeral Exhibitions at Tiffany & Co., 1870-1905 -- Amy McHugh and Cristina Vignone -- 2. Enclosed Exhibitions: Claustrophobia, Balloons, and the Department Store in Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames -- Kathryn A. Haklin -- II: Spectacles -- 3. Jardins-Spectacles: Spaces and Traces of Embodiment -- Susan Taylor-Leduc |
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4. Parading the Temporary: Cosmoramas, Panoramas, and Spectacles in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Camilla Murgia -- 5. Portable Museums: Imaging and Staging the "Northern Gothic Art Tour" -- Ephemera and Alterity -- Juliet Simpson -- III: At the Intersection of Literature and the Built Environment -- 6. The Elusiveness of History and the Ephemerality of Display in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium: At the Intersection of the Built Environment and the Spatial Image in Literature -- Dominique Bauer |
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7. The "Phantasmatic" Chinatown in Helen Hunt Jackson's "The Chinese Empire" and Mark Twain's Roughing It -- Li-hsin Hsu -- IV: The Museum and Alternative Exhibition Spaces -- 8. "Show Meets Science:" How Hagenbeck's "Human Zoos" Inspired Ethnographic Science and Its Museum Presentation -- Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel -- 9. The Last Wunderkammer: Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Emanuele Pellegrini -- 10. The Impact of Alternative Exhibition Spaces on European Modern Art before World War I -- Nirmalie Alexandra Mulloli -- Index |
| Summary |
This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged, imagined, experienced and known. They therefore had a dimension of spectacle to them, as the volume demonstrates. Against this backdrop, the different chapters deal with a plethora of spaces and spatial installations: the wunderkammer, the herbarium, the peep show, the spectacle garden, cosmoramas and panoramas, the dépôt/temporary museum, and the alternative exhibition space |
| Analysis |
ephemeral exhibition spaces, microcosm, spectacle, wunderkammer, herbarium, peep show |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Ephemeral art -- Exhibitions -- History
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Art & design styles: Romanticism.
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Museology and heritage studies.
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Social and cultural history.
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ART / History / Romanticism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bauer, Dominique.
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Murgia, Camilla, 1977-
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| ISBN |
9048542936 |
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9789048542932 |
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