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Titre conventionnel : [Exposition. Birmingham, Barber institute of fine arts. 2022]

Titre(s) : Miss Clara and the celebrity beast in art 1500-1860 [Texte imprimé] / Charles Avery, Helen Cowie, Samuel Shaw and Robert Wenley

Publication : Birmingham : Barber institute of fine arts ; London : In association with Paul Holberton publishing, copyright 2021

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (108 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm

Note(s) : Published to accompany an exhibition held at Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, 12 November 2021 - 27 February 2022. - Bibliogr. p. 104-107
This book tells the fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. It accompanies the first ever major loan exhibition devoted to Clara and celebrity pachyderms in the UK and will offer a significant contribution to scholarship on the subject. The latest in the Barber's acclaimed object-in- focus series, Miss Clara focuses on a small bronze sculpture of a rhinoceros, and also considers other celebrity beasts, the emergence of menageries and zoos, and the significance of the capture and captivity of these big beasts within wider academic discussions of colonialism and empire. 'Miss Clara' arrived in Europe from the Dutch East Indies in 1741, brought by a retired Dutch East India Company captain, Douwe Mout van der Meer, who then toured her round Europe (including England) to huge acclaim and excitement. Jungfer Clara (so christened while visiting Wurzburg in 1748) was the first rhino to be seen on mainland Europe since 1579 and the object of great wonder and affection. Her fame generated a massive industry in souvenirs and imagery from life-scale paintings by major masters to cheap popular prints; there were even Clara-inspired clocks and hairstyles. This book will look at the phenomenon of Clara but, unlike previous studies of the subject, will focus primarily on sculptural/3D representations of her, within the context of other celebrity pachyderms represented by artists between the 16th and 19th centuries

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Barber institute of fine arts (Birmingham, GB)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Rhinocéros (famille) -- Dans l'art  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Sculpture animalière -- Europe -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Genre ou forme : Catalogues d'exposition  Voir les notices liées en tant que genre ou forme

Indice(s) Dewey :  704.943 29668 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Thème des rhinocérotidés  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1913645029. - ISBN 9781913645021 (br.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb472662799

Notice n° :  FRBNF47266279 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Preface / / Nicola Kalinsky ; ; Miss Clara and the celebrity rhinoceros in art, 1500-1800 / / Robert Wenley ; ; Celebrity elephants in Renaissance and Baroque art / / Charles Avery ; ; Private menageries and public zoos c. 1760-1860 : celebrity beasts as emblems of empire / / Samuel Shaw ; ; Map of Miss Clara's travels -- ; Catalogue / / Robert Wenley and Helen Cowie (Nos. 14-15).