{"title":"The Last Wunderkammer : Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries","authors":"E. Pellegrini","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.010","url":null,"abstract":"In his description of the magnificent Vanderbilt collection located on Fifth\u0000 Avenue in New York, Earl Shinn pointed out the presence of a medieval\u0000 Venetian ivory casket in the Japanese parlor. Wonder serves as the guiding\u0000 principle for the display of objects selected according to their provenance\u0000 and for their very different chronologies. In this context, eclecticism\u0000 concerns more than a mere display of heterogeneous artifacts, it is a\u0000 way to create resplendent interiors and to allow visitors sink into a sense\u0000 of wonder. This chapter reconsiders the key concepts of curiosity and\u0000 eclecticism, not just as a fashion or as display modes, but as new steps in\u0000 the long-term history of the Wunderkammer.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124763140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Show Meets Science:” How Hagenbeck’s “Human Zoos” Inspired Ethnographic Science and Its Museum Presentation","authors":"Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter attempts to explain the role of “human zoos” in the emergence\u0000 of scientific ethnography and its display in museums by examining the\u0000 case of the private portfolio of the first director of the Natural History\u0000 Museum Vienna, Ferdinand von Hochstetter. This vast portfolio includes\u0000 photographs of the first Völkerschauen (“peoples’ exhibitions”) by Carl\u0000 Hagenbeck (1844–1913). Some of the pictures of the Greenland Inuit appear\u0000 to have been the templates for at least two sculptures of “native types”\u0000 that the Austrian sculptor Viktor Tilgner used for his Inuit caryatids in\u0000 the exhibition hall. This discovery sheds new light on the complex relation\u0000 between “human zoos” and early ethnographic science.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134036965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Staging the Temporary: The Fragile Character of Space","authors":"C. Murgia","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.001","url":null,"abstract":"This volume examines a varied number of exhibition devices that are\u0000 ephemeral in terms of the precariousness of their structure, but also in\u0000 terms of their capacity to adapt to the space in which they develop. Special\u0000 attention will be paid to spaces such as curiosity cabinets, portable museums,\u0000 show gardens, and a number of unconventional exhibition devices.\u0000 These spaces often function as microcosms, small autonomous universes\u0000 that operate individually, but also in relation to their environment. The aim\u0000 of this volume is to examine their development and relationship to context.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132924398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Elusiveness of History and the Ephemerality of Display in Nineteenth Century France and Belgium:","authors":"D. Bauer","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains how the ephemeral dimension of nineteenth-century\u0000 exhibition spaces testifies to the awareness of a highly elusive past and present.\u0000 Such an awareness underlies a historical, museal society, also beyond the walls\u0000 of museums, exhibits, and collections. Responding to the particular historical\u0000 dimension and sense of elusiveness of the culture of their day, exhibition\u0000 spaces emerge as problematic settings of coherence and “presentification.”\u0000 In this context, an analysis of the interstices between spaces in literature\u0000 (Balzac, Rodenbach, and Mallarmé), and the experience of the built environment\u0000 throughout the century, shows how the interplay of ephemerality and\u0000 presentification communicates a particular experience of temporal deferral,\u0000 fragmentation, and composition from the part of the spectator.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122544637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enclosed Exhibitions : Claustrophobia, Balloons, and the Department Store in Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames","authors":"Kathryn A. Haklin","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines spatial confinement in the eponymous department\u0000 store of Émile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames. A close reading of one of the\u0000 novel’s sale chapters reveals that the store director mobilizes several strategies\u0000 to engender a suffocating atmosphere at the temporary exhibition.\u0000 Linking literary space and publicity, the chapter argues that the store’s\u0000 promotional balloons act as ephemeral, yet dynamic advertisements\u0000 that dismantle interior and exterior space. The balloons instantiate the\u0000 ephemeral quality of the sales since, in spite of their brief duration, they\u0000 produce a lasting visual effect that problematizes a spatial framework\u0000 opposing interior and exterior spaces. This reading suggests that publicity\u0000 contributes to the claustrophobia of commerce in Zola’s fictional\u0000 ephemeral exhibitions.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125087722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Phantasmatic” Chinatown in Helen Hunt Jackson’s “The Chinese Empire” and Mark Twain’s Roughing It","authors":"Li-hsin Hsu","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores Chinatown as an ephemeral site of visual indeterminacy\u0000 in the 1870s by looking at a number of Californian Chinatown accounts\u0000 in Helen Hunt Jackson’s “The Chinese Empire” (1878) and Mark Twain’s\u0000 Roughing It (1872). Late-nineteenth-century Chinatown as an exhibitory\u0000 locus of authentic Chinese-ness for Western tourists is paradoxically characterized\u0000 by its mutability rather than realism. By examining the accounts\u0000 of Jackson and Twain about the Chinese in the 1870s, the decade before the\u0000 passing of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the paper rethinks the “virtual”\u0000 existence of Chinatown, its contested nature as a “phantasmatic site” for\u0000 Western projections and visual consumption, which manifests the potential\u0000 realization of national transformation in the mythic Orient of the new West.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127063371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jardins-Spectacles: Spaces and Traces of Embodiment","authors":"Susan Taylor-Leduc","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.004","url":null,"abstract":"During the French Revolution, resourceful entrepreneurs seized properties\u0000 on the outskirts of Paris to create jardins-spectacles, urban pleasure\u0000 grounds that merged the former aristocratic practices of picturesque\u0000 strolling with popular entertainments. Visitors paid entrance fees to\u0000 explore the artfully contrived sensorium and watch astonishing performances,\u0000 including fireworks displays and hot-air balloon launchings,\u0000 while strolling. Simon Charles Boutin’s development of Tivoli, one of\u0000 the most popular of the approximately twenty jardins-spectacles built\u0000 from 1795 until 1820, reveals how these venues became places to perform\u0000 embodied spectatorship. The ephemerality of the jardins-spectacles has\u0000 marginalized their contribution to the history of visuality in the long\u0000 eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128285522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Alternative Exhibition Spaces on European Modern Art before World War I","authors":"N. Mulloli","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.011","url":null,"abstract":"Exhibitions of modern art at the beginning of the twentieth century\u0000 help to signify, in structured and identifiable nodes, the points at which\u0000 the evolving visual forms of modernism were societally sanctioned and\u0000 integrated into an accepted notion of what constituted art. Limited\u0000 consideration has been given to examining the broader acceptance of\u0000 alternative exhibition venues, previously peripheral or ephemeral, as\u0000 social spaces and to considering the affect these alternative socio-spatial\u0000 constellations had on the reception of the art being exhibited. By analyzing\u0000 the shifting social conditions of art reception that these exhibiting\u0000 spaces represent, this chapter presents a novel contextual view of how\u0000 modern European artists flourished during this time in unprecedented\u0000 ways.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"518 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133725735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“One Need Be Neither a Shopper Nor a Purchaser to Enjoy:” Ephemeral Exhibitions at Tiffany & Co., 1870–1905","authors":"Amy McHugh, Cristina Vignone","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.002","url":null,"abstract":"Tiffany & Co. has been a shopping destination since its founding in 1837. It\u0000 is much less well-known for the exhibitions that it staged in the nineteenth\u0000 century. Accounts of these exhibitions abound in documents preserved\u0000 in Tiffany’s archive. They range in subject from patriotic displays, to the\u0000 pyramid atop the Washington Monument set on the floor so that visitors\u0000 could step over it, to the hide of the circus elephant Forepaugh pinned in\u0000 the store’s windows. Many reviews indicate that Tiffany’s staff encouraged\u0000 idling through the shows with no expectation of purchases. This chapter\u0000 explores how the flagship was simultaneously designed for shopping but\u0000 also provided exposure to high jewelry and fancy goods, educational\u0000 opportunities, and nineteenth-century popular culture.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132397613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portable Museums: Imaging and Staging the “Northern Gothic Art Tour” – Ephemera and Alterity","authors":"J. Simpson","doi":"10.1017/9789048542932.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542932.006","url":null,"abstract":"During the early nineteenth century, the voyage to the past was to become\u0000 a central destination for the discerning art tourist as for artists and writers.\u0000 Yet, such voyages were as much ephemeral as actual, virtual creations of\u0000 burgeoning antiquities tours in print and image. This chapter explores the\u0000 pivotal, yet neglected significance of Northern European Gothic ‘tours’\u0000 flourishing between Britain and the Low Countries from the 1830s–1860s.\u0000 It sheds new light on trailblazing accounts by Romantic tourists, Maria\u0000 Graham (Lady) Callcott, Johann David Passavant, and the Gothic revivalist,\u0000 W.H. James Weale, examining their fascination with Northern medieval\u0000 Gothic architectures, art, and spaces of unseen heritage, constructed via\u0000 ephemeral tour experiences as complex palimpsests of memory, modernity,\u0000 and its other.","PeriodicalId":158457,"journal":{"name":"Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128185738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}