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Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums: 1750-1918

Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums: 1750-1918

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Series: Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective

Art HistoryGeneral ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1041178859
ISBN13: 9781041178859
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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