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From cabinets of curiosities to exhibitions : Victorian curiosity, curiousness, and curious things in Charlotte BrontëLiu, Han-Ying January 2012 (has links)
This thesis intends to answers these questions: What did “curiosity” mean in the nineteenth century, and how do Charlotte Brontë's four major works represent such curiosity? How were women looked at, formulated, and situated under the nineteenth-century curious gaze? In order to answer these questions, this thesis examines Brontë's works by juxtaposing them with nineteenth-century exhibitions. Four chapters are thus dedicated to this study: in each a type of exhibition is contemplated, and in each the definition of “curiosity” is defined through the discussions of boundary-breaking. The first chapter discusses the metaphors of “cabinets of curiosities” throughout Brontë's texts. The most intimate and enclosed spaces occupied by women and / or their objects—attics, desks, drawers, lockets—are searched in order to reveal the secret relationship between Brontë's heroines and the objects they have hidden away, especially the souvenirs. From cabinets of curiosities the thesis moves to another space in which the mechanism of curiosity and display takes place—the garden. The second chapter thus discusses the supposed antithesis between the innocent and the experienced, between the Power of Nature and the Power of Man, by reading the garden imagery in Brontë's works along with nineteenth-century pleasure gardens and the Wardian case. The imagery of Eve is also taken into consideration to discuss the concept of innocence. In the third chapter, metaphors of waxworks and the Pygmalion myth are applied to discuss the image of women's bodies in Brontë's texts, and the boundary between the living body and the non-living statue is seen as blurred. In the final chapter, dolls' houses and their metaphors in Brontë's works are examined in order to explicate Brontë's concept of “home,” and the dolls' house thus poses a question on the relationships between the interior and the exterior, the gigantic and the miniature, and the domestic and the public spaces.
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The artist's role as collector of memory and selfThomas, Lee Ann 11 1900 (has links)
Artworks that use found or appropriated images and objects
often function as collections. These collections simulate the
everyday collections of mementos and souvenirs that come to
represent aspects of an individual's personality and past. The
collections of objects mirror the individual's collection of memories
that help to define himself and provide a means of communication
with others. The artist as collector takes on roles similar to that of
storyteller and anthropologist, providing a narrative of conscious
preservation. Through various devices of display and denial a
curiosity cabinet I Wunderkammer representing and simulating a
Self is created and the role of collector is passed on to the viewer. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / Thesis (M.A. (Art History))
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The artist's role as collector of memory and selfThomas, Lee Ann 11 1900 (has links)
Artworks that use found or appropriated images and objects
often function as collections. These collections simulate the
everyday collections of mementos and souvenirs that come to
represent aspects of an individual's personality and past. The
collections of objects mirror the individual's collection of memories
that help to define himself and provide a means of communication
with others. The artist as collector takes on roles similar to that of
storyteller and anthropologist, providing a narrative of conscious
preservation. Through various devices of display and denial a
curiosity cabinet I Wunderkammer representing and simulating a
Self is created and the role of collector is passed on to the viewer. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / Thesis (M.A. (Art History))
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