The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces : : 1750-1918 /

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

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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 reveal...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
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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

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