Living Pictures, Missing Persons
Subtitle: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780691050744
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; Museums & Museology; Other public performances & spectacles; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Europe - Scandinavia; Waxworks; Literary Criticism; Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Popular culture; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Art and Architecture; Film Studies; Ethnological museums and collections; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; 19th century; Ethnological museums and colle; History; Scandinavia
First sentence: JUST INSIDE the entrance of the Grand Cafe on the central boulevard of present-day Oslo, there is a table reserved for a missing person.