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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 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.
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.
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