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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sandberg, Mark B., 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Waxworks > Scandinavia > History > 19th century.
Ethnological museums and collections > Scandinavia > History > 19th century.
Popular culture > Scandinavia > History > 19th century.
Musées de cire > Scandinavie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Ethnologie > Musées et collections > Scandinavie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Culture populaire > Scandinavie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
20.19 art and society: other.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Ethnological museums and collections.
Intellectual life.
Popular culture.
Waxworks.
Panoptica.
Openluchtmusea.
Tableau (vivant)
Culture populaire > Scandinavie > 18e siècle.
Scandinavia > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Scandinavia.
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.
History.
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