Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in contemporary art : Britain and beyond / Isobel Elstob.
Elstob, Isobel.
2023
N72.H58 E58 2023
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Title Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in contemporary art : Britain and beyond / Isobel Elstob.
Author Elstob, Isobel.
ISBN 9783031284939 (electronic bk.)
9783031284939 electronic book
3031284933 electronic book
3031284925
9783031284922
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28493-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-28493-9 doi
Call Number N72.H58 E58 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 709
Summary From contemporary deployments of taxidermy, magic lanterns and microscopy to the visualization of forgotten lives, marginalized narratives and colonial histories, this book explores how the work of artists including Mat Collishaw, Yinka Shonibare, Tessa Farmer, Mark Dion, Dorothy Cross and Ingrid Pollard reimag(in)es the Victorians in the present. Examining how recent paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films revisit and re-present nineteenth-century technologies, practices and events, the books rich interdisciplinary approach applies literary, media and linguistic theories to its analysis of visual art, alongside in-depth discussions of the Victorian inventions, concepts and narratives that they invoke. The books emphasis on how and why we represent the historical past makes its contribution particularly timely. And by drawing attention to the importance of historiography to the work of these artists, it also unravels the complicated history of History itself. This book will speak to diverse audiences including those interested in art history, visual culture, Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, as well as literature, histories of science and media, postcolonialism, museology, gender studies, postmodernism and the history of ideas.
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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

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