Space, Images, and Art Perception in Napoleonic Paris: Setting the Gaze

by Camilla Murgia

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040772027
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2025
Series:	Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	52 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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