About For Books The Agency of Display: Objects, Framings, and Parerga Review
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The display of artefacts always implies an external mediation that influences, and often codifies, the reception of the exhibits. Objects are manipulated, restored, appropriated, staged, in short displayed, through various representational strategies that include pedestals, labels, and showcases. These elements, which we could define as parerga, are often ignored because of their utilitarian function. Yet, they play an important role in the history of the artefacts and define the setting in which the objects can exert their agency. They not only shape their meaning, but also determine the effect that these artefacts have on their viewers. Framing devices create the conditions for interactions between the individual and the object to take place. This publication aims to explore the relation between artefacts and viewers as they are manifested in framing devices, and to develop a new theoretical framework for thinking about the power of objects on display.C O N T E N T SAcknowledgmentsJohannes Grave, Christiane Holm, Val?rie Kobi, and Caroline van Eck, The Agency of Display: Objects, Framings, and Parerga?Introductory Thoughts1? Display Situations? Ivan Gaskell, Display Displayed? Elsie Van Kessel, The Street as Frame: Corpus Christi Processions in Lisbon prior to Jo?o V? Hannah Williams, Staging Belief: Immersive Encounters and the Agency of Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris? Mechthild Fend, Order and Affect: The Museum of Dermatological Wax Moulages at the H?pital Saint-Louis in Paris? Cindy Kang, The Barnes Ensembles, Again2? Parergonal Operations? Dario Gamboni, Ready-Made Eye-Opener: Models, Functions, and Meanings of the Ironwork in Albert C. Barnes?s Displays? Peter Schade The Reframing of Lazarus? Diana St?rt, Displaying Knowledge: Goethe?s Cabinets as Epistemic Furniture? Angela Matyssek, Death by / Life by Wall Label? No?mie ?tienne, When Things Do Talk (in Storage): Materiality and Agency between Contact and Conflict ZonesContributorsPicture CreditsImprint
The display of artefacts always implies an external mediation that influences, and often codifies, the reception of the exhibits. Objects are manipulated, restored, appropriated, staged, in short displayed, through various representational strategies that include pedestals, labels, and showcases. These elements, which we could define as parerga, are often ignored because of their utilitarian function. Yet, they play an important role in the history of the artefacts and define the setting in which the objects can exert their agency. They not only shape their meaning, but also determine the effect that these artefacts have on their viewers. Framing devices create the conditions for interactions between the individual and the object to take place. This publication aims to explore the relation between artefacts and viewers as they are manifested in framing devices, and to develop a new theoretical framework for thinking about the power of objects on display.C O N T E N T SAcknowledgmentsJohannes Grave, Christiane Holm, Val?rie Kobi, and Caroline van Eck, The Agency of Display: Objects, Framings, and Parerga?Introductory Thoughts1? Display Situations? Ivan Gaskell, Display Displayed? Elsie Van Kessel, The Street as Frame: Corpus Christi Processions in Lisbon prior to Jo?o V? Hannah Williams, Staging Belief: Immersive Encounters and the Agency of Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris? Mechthild Fend, Order and Affect: The Museum of Dermatological Wax Moulages at the H?pital Saint-Louis in Paris? Cindy Kang, The Barnes Ensembles, Again2? Parergonal Operations? Dario Gamboni, Ready-Made Eye-Opener: Models, Functions, and Meanings of the Ironwork in Albert C. Barnes?s Displays? Peter Schade The Reframing of Lazarus? Diana St?rt, Displaying Knowledge: Goethe?s Cabinets as Epistemic Furniture? Angela Matyssek, Death by / Life by Wall Label? No?mie ?tienne, When Things Do Talk (in Storage): Materiality and Agency between Contact and Conflict ZonesContributorsPicture CreditsImprint