An edition of Sideshow alley (2015)

Sideshow alley

infamy, the macabre & the portrait

Sideshow alley
Joanna Gilmour, Joanna Gilmour
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An edition of Sideshow alley (2015)

Sideshow alley

infamy, the macabre & the portrait

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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Language
English
Pages
187

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Sideshow alley: infamy, the macabre & the portrait
2015, National Portrait Gallery
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Canberra, Australia

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Dewey Decimal Class
779/.93069
Library of Congress
TR681.D43 G55 2015

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Pagination
vii, 187 pages
Number of pages
187

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44517438M
ISBN 10
0975103067
ISBN 13
9780975103067
OCLC/WorldCat
973615973

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