{"product_id":"living-pictures-missing-persons-mark-b-sandberg-9780691050744","title":"Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth century, Scandinavian urban dwellers developed a passion for a new, utterly modern sort of visual spectacle: objects and effigies brought to life in astonishingly detailed, realistic scenes. The period 1880-1910 was the popular high point of mannequin display in Europe. \u003ci\u003eLiving Pictures, Missing Persons\u003c\/i\u003e explores this phenomenon as it unfolded with the rise of wax museums and folk museums in the largest cities of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Mark Sandberg asks: Why did modernity generate a cultural fascination with the idea of effigy? He shows that the idea of effigy is also a portal to understanding other aspects of visual entertainment in that period, including the widespread interest in illusionistic scenes and tableaux, in the \"portability\" of sights, spaces, and entire milieus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sandberg investigates this transformation of visual culture outside the usual test cases of the largest European metropolises. He argues that Scandinavian spectators desired an unusual degree of authenticity--a cultural preference for naturalism that made its way beyond theater to popular forms of museum display. The Scandinavian wax museums and folk-ethnographic displays of the era helped pre-cinematic spectators work out the social implications of both voyeuristic and immersive display techniques. This careful study thus anticipates some of the central paradoxes of twentieth-century visual culture--but in a time when the mannequin and the physical relic reigned supreme, and in a place where the contrast between tradition and modernity was a high-stakes game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark B. Sandberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691050740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691050744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.16w x 0.73d","brand":"Mark B. Sandberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45481723625727,"sku":"9780691050744","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7ee6b83-a173-4c66-a845-f241e892764a.jpg?v=1715987485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-pictures-missing-persons-mark-b-sandberg-9780691050744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}