Sentences with phrase «century phantasmagoria»

While this main installation recalls an ongoing body of research into the 18th - century phantasmagoria shows of Jean - Gaspard Robertson — as first seen in Oursler's iconic piece, The Influence Machine (2002) commissioned by Artangel and restaged at Tate Modern in 2013 — another new series situates these reconfigured faces squarely in the context of the 21st century.

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A «phantasmagoria» was a pre-cinematic theatrical show, devised in France in the late eighteenth century, which gained popularity throughout Europe in the nineteenth century.

In approaching The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press) for the first time in earnest I explored Benjamin's use of «phantasmagoria,» traced it back through letters with Adorno, to Marx, to the 17th - century illusionistic «theatre of phantasmagoria,» and developed an essay about illusions created on social media for a journal tasked with addressing the rise of authoritarian populism around the globe.

Ranging from the festive to the ironic, they show a fascination with perceptual ambiguities and the macabre, often with visual trickery inspired by the 18th — and 19th - century stage spectacle known as the «phantasmagoria.»

A cabaret-esque drawing on the outside wall drew in the viewer while lingering on the early experiences of phantasmagoria in 19th century circuses.