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Living Pictures, Missing Persons : Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Idea of Effigy
- Ch. 2. Upstairs, Downstairs at the Wax Museum. A Scandinavian Panoptikon. Ape in the Human
- Ch. 3. The Wax Effigy as Recording Technology. Annihilation of Space and Time. Effigy as Index. Persuasive Relics
- Ch. 4. Figure and Tableau. Showing Stories. The Living Tableau. Toeing the Line. Entrapment Scenarios
- Ch. 5. Panoptikon, Metropolis, and the Urban Uncanny. Small Big Cities. Urbanity and Orientalism. The City in the Mirror
- Ch. 6. Vanishing Culture. Cultural Juxtaposition. Tableaux for Tourists. Cradle or Grave?
- Ch. 7. Dead Bones Rise. Homeless Objects. Props
- Ch. 8. Insiders. Cohabitation. Traces. Home, Again
- Ch. 9. Farmers and Flaneurs. Cultural-Historical Intoxication.