Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums

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Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums is written by Dominique Bauer and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040800491 (ISBN 10) and 9781040800492 (ISBN 13).

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.