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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"phantasmagoria"”.
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The American phantasmagoria: The rise of spiritualism in nineteenth-century America
<p>Spiritualism, or the belief in spirit communications through mediums, was a movement in the nineteenth century which gained popularity within America. This thesis aims to widen the scope of spiritualism’s historiography by exploring spiritualists’ lives to reveal a more complex answer to why …
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Haunted to Death: Subverting Genre and Reader Expectations in Lewis Carroll's Phantasmagoria
<p>This study of Lewis Carroll’s Phantasmagoria argues that the poem failed to achieve critical and popular success due to unmet reader expectations. The poem is a haunted house or ghost story and in many ways follows the familiar formula of the Victorian ghost story. However, Carroll’s political …
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Phantasma-agoria of/in crisis. Lens-based media and collective experience of the political in performing ‘image’ and agora.
… practices, I critically employed the concept of phantasmagoria, which has been traditionally conceived as the symbol of the consumerist culture. In particular, I concentrated on phantasmagoria as a complex synthesis of the concepts ‘image’/phantasma and agora to re-examine the practice of …
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Uncanny Bodies: an arts practice-based exploration of strategies to embody thresholds between life and death
… configuration” (M.Elcott, 2016) of phantasmagoria and examine the uncanniness of digital moving image in relation to my practice and to modes of spectatorship. Using projected images of the body that hover between the animate and the inanimate I investigate ways to rupture the …
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[Re]rendering the real: experiments in phantasmagoric intervention and scenographic reverie
… a scenographic perspective. Using the notion of ‘phantasmagoria' as an in-road into the research, I utilise performance and scenographic intervention to explore oscillations between the mundane and the extraordinary. A comprehensive analysis of the created performance, its conceptual roots and …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… as a series of installation tableaux alluding to phantasmagoria and a Freudian sense of the uncanny, a sense of the familiar made foreign. This sense of misrecognition acknowledges the power of mimetic transformation that occurs through sympathetic magic, giving bodily power to objects that bear …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… as a series of installation tableaux alluding to phantasmagoria and a Freudian sense of the uncanny, a sense of the familiar made foreign. This sense of misrecognition acknowledges the power of mimetic transformation that occurs through sympathetic magic, giving bodily power to objects that bear …
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Der Begriff der Aura und einer Kunst ohne Aura im Werk von Walter Benjamin
… and the relation between subject and object is phantasmagoria!. An auratic perception or experience is replaced by one determined by technology. Benjamin calls the latter one of actuality. Thereby the commodity denies an experience leading to the concept of totality. Benjamin's formulation of …
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L’Imaginaire des Pays-Bas dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle
… same time. The illusion of the fantastic and the phantasmagoria make it possible to vanquish the setbacks suffered through the figures of intimacy. Against the industrialisation, against the changes of modern society, as well as against mass tourism, the author will oppose his imaginary experience …
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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century
During the late 19th century, arts and literature had a surge of sensory awareness, made manifest through sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel …