04151nam 22003973 450 991076548230332120231123080225.03-031-28493-3(MiAaPQ)EBC30960586(Au-PeEL)EBL30960586(CKB)29019301000041(EXLCZ)992901930100004120231123d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art Britain and Beyond1st ed.Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,2023.©2023.1 online resource (279 pages)Print version: Elstob, Isobel Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Visualizing the Victorians -- Chapter 2: Seeing Is (Not) Believing: Photography, Magic Lanterns and Virtual Realities -- The Frenzy of the Visible -- The Rematerialization of Imagery -- Sally Mann: The Angel of Uncertainty -- The Narcissistic Gaze -- The Auratic Object -- The Image Surface -- That-Has-Been -- Who Wants to Talk About Slavery? -- That-Has-Been-Long-Ago -- Ambiguity and Materiality -- Mat Collishaw: Projections of the Past -- The Magic Lantern -- Pepper's Ghost -- Panoramic Phantasmagoria -- The Panoptical Dungeon -- Raising Ghosts -- Stereoscopic Immersion -- Echoes of the Past -- Invocation as Method -- Stimulating Views -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Animal Body Remade: Bones, Feathers, Furs and Fairies -- A Labouring Aesthetic -- Contemporary Taxidermy -- Kate MccGwire and Alastair Mackie: Reclaiming Nature -- Polly Morgan: Sculpting the 'Real' -- Death and Ethics -- Assemblage and Narrative -- Surface and Spectacle -- Simulated Skins -- Illusion and Allusion -- Tessa Farmer: Fairy Mania -- Collecting and Chance -- Making and Place -- Narrative and Storytelling -- Survival and Cruelty -- Display and Mediation -- Preservation and Classification -- Miniaturization and Observation -- The Fairies and Their World -- A Truth Stranger Than Fiction -- The Grotesque and the Freak -- The Trickster and Transgression -- The Return of the Fairies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Unnatural Histories: Forgotten Objects, Narratives and Lives -- The Heyday of Natural History -- The Narrative of History -- Mark Fairnington: Metafictional Mantidae -- Re-presenting Realism -- The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination -- The Wonders of the Microscope -- The Photograph as Fragment -- Montage and Mediation -- A Collection of Forms -- Mark Dion: Victorian Natural Histories.The Amateur Beachcomber -- The Specimen Collector -- The Evolutionary Biologist -- The Female Naturalist -- The Artist-Historian -- Dorothy Cross: Recovering the Past -- Composing the Fragments -- Reenellen and Self-Authorization -- Audio-Visual Intertexts -- Remembering Maude Delap -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Colonial Afterlives: Communicating Our Transnational Past -- Creative Histories -- (Post-)colonial Contexts -- Yinka Shonibare: Performing the Past -- Ankara as Medium -- Incongruity and Anachronism -- Self and Audience -- Self and Signifyin(g) -- Dandyism as Subversion -- Cultural Cross-dressing -- 'Living Histories' -- Shonibare as Storyteller -- Ingrid Pollard: History Beneath the Lens -- Historicizing the Image -- Re-presenting the Archive -- Labour and Landscapes -- Releasing Subjectivities -- Postcards Home -- Nostalgia and Narrative -- Missing You… -- Reading the Intertext -- The Present as Past… -- …and Past as Present -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: The Present Past in Contemporary Art -- Index.709709Elstob Isobel1448880MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910765482303321Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art3644896UNINA