Living Pictures, Missing Persons : Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity /

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In the late nineteenth century, Scandinavian urban dwellers developed a passion for a new, utterly modern sort of visual spectacle: objects and effigies brought to life in astonishingly detailed, realistic scenes. The period 1880-1910 was the popular high point of mannequin display in Europe. Living...

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Autor principal: Sandberg, Mark B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
A Severed Head.
Agnosticism.
Anachronism.
Anthropomorphism.
Antique furniture.
Archive.
Assassination.
Autobiography.
Cataclysm (Dragonlance).
Cemetery.
Chamber of Horrors (Madame Tussauds).
City Museum.
Complexity.
Crone.
Cultural history.
Curator.
Deal with the Devil.
Death mask.
Death.
Decapitation.
Decoy effect.
Degenerative disease.
Desecration.
Diorama.
Dismemberment.
Distrust.
Documenta.
Double consciousness.
Dreyfus affair.
Entrapment.
Ephemerality.
Exoticism.
False evidence.
First Sorrow.
Folk museum.
From Time Immemorial.
Genre painting.
Grandparent.
Grave robbery.
His Family.
Historical Association.
Historical trauma.
Horror film.
Hyperreality.
Illustration.
Impossibility.
Infidel.
Jonathan Crary.
Karen Blixen.
Leprosy.
Linda Williams (film scholar).
Mail.
Mannequin.
Memoir.
Michael Dummett.
Michael Fried.
Mock execution.
Modernity.
Morgue.
Most Secret.
Museology.
Museum.
Mystery of the Wax Museum.
Neglect.
Neoromanticism (music).
New Thought.
Newspaper.
Night of the Living Dead.
Nightmare in Wax.
Nordic Museum.
Obsolescence.
On Cinema.
Orientalism.
P. T. Barnum.
Paul Leni.
Personal History.
Portrait photography.
Random House.
Religion.
Romanticism.
Schocken Books.
Scientific skepticism.
Secret photography.
Semiotics.
Serial killer.
Skansen.
Smithsonian Institution.
Stockholm City Museum.
Suicide.
Superiority (short story).
Taxidermy.
The Last Minute.
The Philosopher.
Theft.
Thomas Kuhn.
Underdevelopment.
Viewing (funeral).
Vincent Price.
Wax museum.
Wear and tear.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER ONE The Idea of Effigy
  • CHAPTER TWO Upstairs, Downstairs at the Wax Museum
  • CHAPTER THREE The Wax Effigy as Recording Technology
  • CHAPTER FOUR Figure and Tableau
  • CHAPTER FIVE Panoptikon, Metropolis, and the Urban Uncanny
  • CHAPTER SIX Vanishing Culture
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Dead Bones Rise
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Insiders
  • CHAPTER NINE Farmers and Flaneurs
  • CHAPTER TEN Material Mobility
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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