In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical consciousness; a period that saw the birth of modern historiography; a profusion of historical novels and paintings; and the widespread production of historical plays. Historical buildings; in themselves already of intense interest to people of the day; also found their way into the multiplying cultural forms as concrete presences anchoring a novelist’s; poet’s; painter’s; or; eventually; filmmaker’s vision of the past. In recent years a number of blockbuster films have used historically significant buildings as filming locations because buildings can concretely bring a former era or fictional world closer to contemporary viewers. Conjuring the Real traces the genealogy of this representational role of architecture; going back through the history of film and then further in literature; art; and theater. The contributors examine the ways in which authors; artists; and stage managers used complex depictions of buildings to feed and shape the audience’s historical imagination.
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