Ephemeral spectacles, exhibition spaces and museums : 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 (299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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 demonstrates. Against this backdrop, the different chapters deal with a plethora of spaces and spatial installations: the wunderkammer, the spectacle garden, cosmoramas and panoramas, the literary space, the temporary museum, and the alternative exhibition space.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction: Staging the Temporary: The Fragile Character of Space

I The Department Store

1. "One Need Be Neither a Shopper Nor a Purchaser to Enjoy:" Ephemeral Exhibitions at Tiffany & Co., 1870-1905

2. Enclosed Exhibitions : Claustrophobia, Balloons, and the Department Store in Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames

II Spectacles

3. Jardins-Spectacles: Spaces and Traces of Embodiment

4. Parading the Temporary: Cosmoramas, Panoramas , and Spectacles in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris

5. Portable Museums: Imaging and Staging the "Northern Gothic Art Tour" - Ephemera and Alterity

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

7. The "Phantasmatic" Chinatown in Helen Hunt Jackson's "The Chinese Empire" and Mark Twain's Roughing It

IV The Museum and Alternative Exhibition Spaces

8. "Show Meets Science:" How Hagenbeck's "Human Zoos" Inspired Ethnographic Science and Its Museum Presentation

9. The Last Wunderkammer : Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

10. The Impact of Alternative Exhibition Spaces on European Modern Art before World War I

Index.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

90-485-4293-6

OCLC:

1250089041