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Acknowledgements
Introduction / Christian Mieves and Irene Brown
Part I. Taxonomy, structures and identities: 1. Archives of wonder : collecting the liminal in contemporary art / Tiffany Shafran ; 2. One hour : visual practice exploring a collective History / Shirley Chubb ; 3. Wonders without wonder : divining the donkey-rat / Will Buckingham ; 4 Wonder, subversion and newness / Runette Kruger ; 5. The Snow globe as an object of wonder / Anne Hilker ; 6. From Nimbus Cloud to Cloud Canyon : artistic practice and the idea of wonder in contemporary art / Christian Mieves
Part II. Contemporary curatorial practices: 7. 7 Spectral exhibitions : the wonders of the invisible world (or, Exhibiting contradiction
known knowns and unknown unknowns) / Alistair Robinson ; 8. Wonder on tour / Irene Brown ; 9. Coral fishing and pearl diving : curatorial approaches to doubt and wonder / Marion Endt-Jones ; 10. Preternatural : curating wonder / Celina Jeffery
Part III. Contemporary artistic practice and the function of wonder: 11. Collecting human skulls and hair : in pursuit of wonder in death's chambers / Jane Wildgoose ; 12. Wunderkammer of the now : in search of the Wunderbare : romanticizing as a contemporary fine art practice / Laura Kuch ; 13. The Enemies of wonder : an itinerant conversation / Silke Dettmers and Mark Sanderson ; 14. Claude glass revisited : ' ... the largest down to the smallest balls of mercury reflect the entire universe' / Alison Dalwood ; 15. Photographing the Wunderkammer : a personal journey of art making and meaning / Terry Ownby ; 16. Gothic wonder in the contemporary landscape / Juliette Losq
List of Contributors
Index.
List of plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction / Christian Mieves and Irene Brown
Part I. Taxonomy, structures and identities: 1. Archives of wonder : collecting the liminal in contemporary art / Tiffany Shafran ; 2. One hour : visual practice exploring a collective History / Shirley Chubb ; 3. Wonders without wonder : divining the donkey-rat / Will Buckingham ; 4 Wonder, subversion and newness / Runette Kruger ; 5. The Snow globe as an object of wonder / Anne Hilker ; 6. From Nimbus Cloud to Cloud Canyon : artistic practice and the idea of wonder in contemporary art / Christian Mieves
Part II. Contemporary curatorial practices: 7. 7 Spectral exhibitions : the wonders of the invisible world (or, Exhibiting contradiction
known knowns and unknown unknowns) / Alistair Robinson ; 8. Wonder on tour / Irene Brown ; 9. Coral fishing and pearl diving : curatorial approaches to doubt and wonder / Marion Endt-Jones ; 10. Preternatural : curating wonder / Celina Jeffery
Part III. Contemporary artistic practice and the function of wonder: 11. Collecting human skulls and hair : in pursuit of wonder in death's chambers / Jane Wildgoose ; 12. Wunderkammer of the now : in search of the Wunderbare : romanticizing as a contemporary fine art practice / Laura Kuch ; 13. The Enemies of wonder : an itinerant conversation / Silke Dettmers and Mark Sanderson ; 14. Claude glass revisited : ' ... the largest down to the smallest balls of mercury reflect the entire universe' / Alison Dalwood ; 15. Photographing the Wunderkammer : a personal journey of art making and meaning / Terry Ownby ; 16. Gothic wonder in the contemporary landscape / Juliette Losq
List of Contributors
Index.