This book examines the impact of space on the perception of art and visual culture in early nineteenth-century Paris. It turns its attention to the way in which space determines the understanding and the development of visual culture. The abundance of images, their status, and their employment alike offer a means to grasp the extent of the development of an approach to art which further involved the spectator. Space is here conceived as a multifaceted entity, spanning architectural, scholarly, artistic, and visual dimensions. These various aspects offer means to consider the way in which images work and are consumed, and the individual experience they represent. Space works as a link and a connecting tool between different intellectual and visual categories, and this study examines how this interaction applies to works of art as well as everyday objects.
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, About the Brittle
Relationship between Space and Objects, The Multidimensionality of Space,
Connecting Objects and Space, The
Chapters, Bibliography,
Chapter One,
Displaying Public Space: The Example of the Louvre, Physical and Intellectual
Space, Exhibiting, Interacting, Disseminating, Printmaking and the question
of originality, Illustrating the Louvre's collection, Functionalities of the
printed image, Bibliography,
Chapter Two, The Transferable Character of
Space, Spatialities of experience and expectation, The Industry Exhibitions,
Exhibition space as a catalyst to celebrate the nation, Transferability,
experience, and seriality, The theatrical function of the space: Antonin
Carême's sugar sculptures, The image in spatial transferability: the case of
Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola, The interaction between experience and
expectation: the Velours Grégoire, New forms of hybridity: visual experience
and commercial strategies, Multiple functions and versatility of space,
Bibliography,
Chapter Three, Connecting Spaces: the Image as Performance,
Public space is a stage: shop signs, labels, and printed games, Stage,
theatre and mise en scène, Mobile views and sequentiality as entertainment,
The dynamics of Panoramas, Staging the action: equestrian shows and horse
races, Bibliography,
Chapter Four, The Dilemma of Transition: Views on Art
Perception, Shifts and intermediaries, Comparison and hybridity: old masters
and contemporary art, Text as mediating space: artists and critics,
Experimental areas, Fiction/reality, Theatrical plays, Bibliography,
Epilogue, Index
Camilla Murgia is Assistant Professor in History of Art at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Previously, she was Junior Lecturer and Substitute Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Lausanne, where she researched space, theatre, and staging in nineteenth-century France.
