The home, nations and empires, and ephemeral exhibition spaces : 1750-1918 / edited by Dominique Bauer and Camilla Murgia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauer, Dominique, editor.

Murgia, Camilla, 1977- editor.

Series:

Spatial imageries in historical perspective.

Spatial imageries in historical perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ephemeral art--Exhibitions--History.

Ephemeral art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhibitions and museums that display both national/imperial identity and the otherness that lurks beyond a country's borders. What is revealed is that the same tension operates in these private and public realms; namely, that between identification and self-projection, on the one hand, and alienation, otherness and objectification on the other. In uncovering this, the authors show that the self, the citizen/society and the other are realities that are constantly being asserted, defined and objectified. This takes place, they demonstrate, in a ceaseless dynamic of projection versus alienation, and intimacy versus distancing.

Contents:

Elizabeth A. Pergam

8. Julia Margaret Cameron's Railway Station Exhibition: A Private Gallery in the Public Sphere

Jeff Rosen

9. Paper Monument: The Paradoxical Space in the English Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, 1825-1843

Shijia Yu

Index

4. The Land that Never Was: Liminality of Existence and the Imaginary Spaces in the Archbishopric of Karlovci

Jelena Todorovic

5. The Theatre of Affectionate Hearts: Izabela Czartoryska's Musee des Monuments Polonais in Puławy (1801-1831)

Michał Mencfel

6. A Burning Mind, a Dream Space, a "Fantastic Exhibition"

Inessa Kouteinikova

III: England and the British Empire: Civil Society, Civil Service, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces

7. An Ephemeral Display within an Ephemeral Museum: The East India Company Contribution to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces and the Dynamic of Historical Liminalities

Dominique Bauer

I: The Home

1. Panorama as Critical Restoration: Examining the Ephemeral Space of Viollet-le-Duc's Study at La Vedette

Aisling O'Carroll

2. An Ephemeral Museum of Decorative and Industrial Arts: Charle Albert's Vlaams Huis

Daniela N. Prina

3. Expanding Interiors: Architectural Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione

Heidi Brevik-Zender

II: Bygone Nations and Empires under Construction: Political Imaginations

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

90-485-4292-8

OCLC:

1250089048