The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces

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The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces is written by Dominique Bauer and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040797393 (ISBN 10) and 9781040797396 (ISBN 13).

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.