The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces: 1750-1918 (Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective) by PROF. DR. Dominique Bauer and DR. Camilla Murgia
English | May 25, 2021 | ISBN: 9463720804 | 276 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.