2025/11/08 by Stephen Daniels · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Art, Politics, and Modernism #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Historical Art and Culture Studies
paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
openalex created_date 2025/11/08 · openalex publication_date 2025/11/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
This essay reviews Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at the Djangoly Gallery, University of Nottingham 22 September 2023 — 7 January 2024, and also an accompanying monograph titled Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond by Isobel Elstob, and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. This essay addresses academic exhibition making and meaning, also themes of a Neo-Victorian ‘present past’ in a selection of artworks displayed in the exhibition and discussed in the book, and their geographical re-imagination of sites, spaces and landscapes.