Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums : 1750-1918.

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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 de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bauer, Dominique, Murgia, Camilla, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Colección:Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective Ser.
Temas:
Ephemeral art > Exhibitions > History.
Art & design styles: Romanticism.
Museology and heritage studies.
Social and cultural history.
ART / History / Romanticism
ephemeral exhibition spaces, microcosm, spectacle, wunderkammer, herbarium, peep show.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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