Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual

Introduction

Christian Mieves and Irene Brown

Part I: Taxonomy, Structures and Identities

1. Archives of Wonder: Collecting the Liminal in Contemporary Art

Tiffany Shafran

2. One Hour: Visual Practice Exploring a Collective History

Shirley Chubb

3. Wonders Without Wonder: Divining the Donkey-Rat

Will Buckingham

4. Wonder, Subversion and Newness
Runette Kruger

5. The Snow Globe as Object of Wonder

Anne Hilker

6. From Nimbus Cloud to Cloud Canyon: Artistic Practice and the Idea of Wonder in Contemporary Art

Christian Mieves

Part II: Contemporary Curatorial Practices

7. Spectral Exhibitions: `The Wonders of the Invisible

World¿ (or, Exhibiting Contradiction ¿ Known Knowns and Unknown Unknowns)

Alistair Robinson

8. Wonder on Tour

Irene Brown

9. Coral-Fishing and Pearl-Diving: Curatorial Approaches to Doubt and Wonder

Marion Endt-Jones

10. Preternatural: Curating Wonder

Celina Jeffery

Part III: Contemporary Artistic Practice and the Function of Wonder

11. Collecting Skulls and Hair: In Pursuit of Wonder in Death¿s Chambers

Jane Wildgoose

12. Wunderkammer of the Now: In Search of the Wunderbare: Romanticising as a

Contemporary Fine Art Practice

Laura Kuch

13. The Enemies of Wonder: An Itinerant Conversation

Silke Dettmers and Mark Sanderson

14. Claude Glass Re-visited: `...the largest down to the smallest balls of mercury reflect the entire universe.¿

Alison Dalwood

15. Photographing the Wunderkammer: a Personal Journey of art Making and Meaning

Terry Ownby

16. Gothic Wonder in the Contemporary Landscape

Juliette Losq