Index. List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Gothic wonder in the contemporary landscape / Juliette Losq -- Part I. Taxonomy, structures and identities: 1. Archives of wonder : collecting the liminal in contemporary art / Tiffany Shafran ; 2. One hour : visual practice exploring a collective History / Shirley Chubb ; 3. Wonders without wonder : divining the donkey-rat / Will Buckingham ; 4 Wonder, subversion and newness / Runette Kruger ; 5. The Snow globe as an object of wonder / Anne Hilker ; 6. From Nimbus Cloud to Cloud Canyon : artistic practice and the idea of wonder in contemporary art / Christian Mieves -- Part II. Contemporary curatorial practices: 7. 7 Spectral exhibitions : the wonders of the invisible world (or, Exhibiting contradiction -- known knowns and unknown unknowns) / Alistair Robinson ; 8. Wonder on tour / Irene Brown ; 9. Coral fishing and pearl diving : curatorial approaches to doubt and wonder / Marion Endt-Jones ; 10. Preternatural : curating wonder / Celina Jeffery -- Part III. Contemporary artistic practice and the function of wonder: 11. Collecting human skulls and hair : in pursuit of wonder in death's chambers / Jane Wildgoose ; 12. Wunderkammer of the now : in search of the Wunderbare : romanticizing as a contemporary fine art practice / Laura Kuch ; 13. The Enemies of wonder : an itinerant conversation / Silke Dettmers and Mark Sanderson ; 14. Claude glass revisited : ' ... the largest down to the smallest balls of mercury reflect the entire universe' / Alison Dalwood ; 15. Photographing the Wunderkammer : a personal journey of art making and meaning / Terry Ownby ; 16. Gothic wonder in the contemporary landscape / Juliette Losq -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new perspective on this overlooked connection, allowing a unique insight into the role of wonder in contemporary visual practice. Artists, curators and art theorists give accounts of their approach to wonder through the use of materials, objects and ways of exhibiting. These accounts not only raise issues of a particular relevance to the way in which we encounter our reality today but ask to what extent artists utilize the function of wonder purposely in their work.
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