Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art : Britain and Beyond

• Autore: Elstob Isobel
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 pages)
• Disciplina: 709
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art
• ISBN: 3-031-28493-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765482303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II