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Space, Images, and Art Perception in Napoleonic Paris Setting the Gaze
By Camilla Murgia
Copyright 2025
280 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
