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  1. Sideshow Alley
    infamy, the macabre & the portrait
    Author: Gilmour, Joanna
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

    Our Victorian forebears weren't squeamish. And they weren't all that prim, either. Sideshow Alley re-tells tales of criminal and institutional savagery in Australia's colonial settlements and considers the tension between: The idea of portraiture as... more

    Location:
    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    Our Victorian forebears weren't squeamish. And they weren't all that prim, either. Sideshow Alley re-tells tales of criminal and institutional savagery in Australia's colonial settlements and considers the tension between: The idea of portraiture as a means to edify, refine and elevate the sensibility of the populace, and the popular thirst for the lowbrow, the cheap, the tacky and the ghoulish in portraiture. 'Sideshow Alley' transports us to a time when crowds surged to see the laid-out bodies of outlaws, competing to tear out scraps of their hair and beards; and a photograph of a corseted matron, posed against a pillar no less rigid than she, might be stuck in the family album alongside a photograph of a defunct bushranger, propped up with gun in hand to menace the populace even in death. 'Sideshow Alley' brings to life a time when lithographs, woodcuts and waxworks of men in their direst moments attracted just as much interest as the monumental representations of explorers and statesmen that set the official tone of the age

     
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  2. Sideshow alley
    infamy, the macabre & the portrait
    Author: Gilmour, Joanna
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia

    Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship... more

    Location:
    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship between death and portraiture via a focus on the various ways in which artists, photographers and entrepreneurs made use of portraits of Australian convicts and criminals: the canny or unscrupulous publishers trading in salacious prints and penny dreadfuls; the otherwise respectable people who put cartes de visite of serial killers into their family albums; the photographic studios doing a brisk trade in portraits of heroes and villains; and the waxworks proprietors who, with their 'Chambers of Horrors', turned violence, misfortune and the macabre into a lucrative art form. Combined with beautifully illustrated prints, drawings and photographs from the collections of major Australian public libraries, archives and galleries as well as from those of the Old Melbourne Gaol, the Victoria Police Museum, and the Justice & Police Museum, Sydney, Sideshow Alley discusses death masks and wax anatomical models amidst a surprising variety of objects, and draws an intriguing portrait of Australian society and culture during the nineteenth century

     
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  3. Sideshow alley
    infamy, the macabre & the portrait
    Author: Gilmour, Joanna
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia

    Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship... more

    Location:
    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    ::8:2017:4043:
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    Signature:
    2017 C 2268
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship between death and portraiture via a focus on the various ways in which artists, photographers and entrepreneurs made use of portraits of Australian convicts and criminals: the canny or unscrupulous publishers trading in salacious prints and penny dreadfuls; the otherwise respectable people who put cartes de visite of serial killers into their family albums; the photographic studios doing a brisk trade in portraits of heroes and villains; and the waxworks proprietors who, with their 'Chambers of Horrors', turned violence, misfortune and the macabre into a lucrative art form. Combined with beautifully illustrated prints, drawings and photographs from the collections of major Australian public libraries, archives and galleries as well as from those of the Old Melbourne Gaol, the Victoria Police Museum, and the Justice & Police Museum, Sydney, Sideshow Alley discusses death masks and wax anatomical models amidst a surprising variety of objects, and draws an intriguing portrait of Australian society and culture during the nineteenth century

     
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