The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces : : 1750-1918 / / ed. by Dominique Bauer, Camilla Murgia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Dominique,; Brevik-Zender, Heidi,; Kouteinikova, Inessa,; Mencfel, Michał,; O’Carroll, Aisling,; Pergam, Elizabeth A.,; Prina, Daniela N.,; Rosen, Jeff,; Todorovic, Jelena,; Yu, Shijia,
• HerausgeberIn: Bauer, Dominique,; Murgia, Camilla,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction : Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces and the Dynamic of Historical Liminalities -- I The Home -- 1. Panorama as Critical Restoration : Examining the Ephemeral Space of Viollet-le-Duc’s Study at La Vedette -- 2. An Ephemeral Museum of Decorative and Industrial Arts : Charle Albert’s Vlaams Huis -- 3. Expanding Interiors : Architectural Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione -- II Bygone Nations and Empires under Construction: Political Imaginations -- 4. The Land that Never Was : Liminality of Existence and the Imaginary Spaces in the Archbishopric of Karlovci -- 5. The Theatre of Affectionate Hearts : Izabela Czartoryska’s Musée des Monuments Polonais in Puławy (1801–1831) -- 6. A Burning Mind, a Dream Space, a “Fantastic Exhibition” -- 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 -- 8. Julia Margaret Cameron’s Railway Station Exhibition : A Private Gallery in the Public Sphere -- 9. Paper Monument : The Paradoxical Space in the English Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, 1825–1843 -- Index