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Victoria's Self-Fashioning: curating the royal image for dynasty, nation, and empire

维多利亚的自我塑造：为王朝、国家和帝国打造皇室形象

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R013500/1
负责人：
Joanna Marschner
金额：
$ 4.6万
依托单位：
Historic Royal Palaces
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR013500%2F1
关键词：
Victoria Self Fashioning curating royal

项目摘要

Queen Victoria's name is used to identify an era. Over her long reign the British Empire covered a quarter of the globe. The birth of photography, and an explosion in print culture and the press, allowed her image to touch its furthest reaches. Her image, painted and sculpted, still dominates public spaces scattered throughout every continent. The narrative of Victoria's life has been rehearsed continuously since her death, testament to an enduring significance of her legacy. However, these narratives have not cast her as the focus of a culturally political study. Instead, orthodox approaches have set her up as a curiously inert figure, detached from public life and from the political shaping of the monarchy. This project challenges these orthodoxies by examining Victoria herself as a pro-active political agent in the construction of an image for nineteenth century monarchy, and therefore directly implicated in what would become the Queen Victoria phenomenon. Bringing together an international group of scholars from the academy, research institutes, museums and collections, and heritage organisations, we propose three related workshops, and a conference. The first workshop will discuss Victoria's creation of her own image, and the ways in which she managed her conflicted role, as a Queen Regnant, but also a wife and mother. Through a consideration of her surviving dress, together with the royal photographic collection, and Victoria's own amateur art works, it will assess how this image took physical form and was tested, honed, and developed by her, to serve the needs of the monarchy over the seventy-four years of her reign. The second workshop will map the journey of this self-curated image from Victoria's private sphere to the public realm, and particularly across the British Empire. It will explore her involvement in the commissioning and purchase of painted, sculpted and photographic images to celebrate her family and its dynastic ambition. It will investigate their dissemination through print culture, and a burgeoning press, and their movement and use through many contexts, locally and globally. This will include the ways in which the image was used to counter critical responses to Queen and Empress, in attempts to quench the flames of colonial resentment at British rule in ceremonial events or to challenge republican sentiment from groups like the Chartists. This workshop will also explore how Victoria, as curator, presented the material of her life, for a public audience, in the first museum displays in her celebration, and how these were received. The third workshop will discuss how the image of Victoria might be curated today in the digital sphere: how this material can be made available not only to scholars but to a wide, global public fascinated by Victoria. This will involve devising ways in which a project can be undertaken across a set of institutions around the globe, providing a methodological and practical template for further projects nationally and internationally. The workshop will consider ways in which the 'digital museum' can challenge the notion of the physical ownership of the material culture associated with this globally important figure, and can allow curation by a wider and more diverse audience. We will inaugurate this project in late 2018, and bring it to a conclusion with the conference in 2019, the bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth, which will bring it a special resonance. The conference will consider and test the project as a whole, synthesizing the workshop debates. The anniversary will also allow us to empower the pilot digital projects, which we will devise with the aim to touch a contemporary international audience in locations where her image still presides in sculpted form, or which are named after her, for instance, and use them to ask how Victoria's contested legacy is understood now.

维多利亚女王的名字被用来识别一个时代。在她长期的统治期间，大英帝国覆盖了地球的四分之一。摄影的诞生，以及印刷文化和媒体的爆炸式增长，让她的图像触及了最大限度的触角。她的形象，绘制和雕刻，仍然主导着散布在每个大洲的公共空间。自维多利亚去世以来，关于她的生活的叙述一直在排练，这证明了她的遗产具有持久的意义。然而，这些叙述并没有让她成为文化政治研究的焦点。相反，正统的做法把她塑造成了一个令人奇怪的惰性人物，脱离了公共生活和君主制的政治塑造。这个项目挑战了这些正统观念，将维多利亚本人视为19世纪君主制形象建设中的积极政治代理人，因此直接牵涉到后来成为维多利亚女王现象的事件中。我们汇集了来自科学院、研究机构、博物馆和收藏品以及文物组织的国际学者小组，提出了三个相关的研讨会和一个会议。第一个研讨会将讨论维多利亚如何塑造自己的形象，以及她如何处理自己矛盾的角色，既是女王摄政王，也是妻子和母亲。通过对她幸存的连衣裙、王室摄影收藏以及维多利亚自己的业余艺术作品的考虑，它将评估这幅图像是如何形成物理形态的，以及她是如何测试、磨练和发展这幅图像的，以满足她统治74年来君主制的需求。第二个工作坊将描绘这个自我策划的形象从维多利亚的私人领域到公共领域，特别是整个大英帝国的旅程。它将探讨她参与委托和购买绘画、雕塑和摄影图像，以庆祝她的家庭和王朝的雄心。它将调查它们通过印刷文化和蓬勃发展的新闻媒体的传播，以及它们在当地和全球许多背景下的流动和使用。这将包括如何利用这张照片来反击对女王和皇后的批评回应，试图在仪式活动中扑灭对英国统治的殖民怨恨之火，或者挑战图表等团体的共和党情绪。这个工作坊还将探讨维多利亚作为策展人如何在她的庆祝活动中首次在博物馆展出她的生活材料，并向公众展示这些材料，以及这些材料是如何被接受的。第三个研讨会将讨论如何在今天的数字领域策划维多利亚的形象：如何不仅向学者提供这些材料，而且向被维多利亚着迷的广泛的全球公众提供这些材料。这将涉及设计在全球一系列机构中开展一个项目的方法，为国内和国际上的其他项目提供一个方法和实用的模板。研讨会将考虑如何让“数字博物馆”挑战与这位全球重要人物相关的物质文化的物质所有权的概念，并允许更广泛、更多样化的观众进行策展。我们将在2018年底启动这个项目，并在2019年维多利亚女王诞辰200周年大会上结束它，这将给它带来特别的共鸣。会议将对整个项目进行审议和测试，综合研讨会的辩论情况。周年纪念还将使我们能够支持试点数字项目，我们将设计这些项目，目的是在她的形象仍然以雕塑形式存在的地方，或者以她的名字命名的地方，接触当代的国际观众，并利用它们来询问现在如何理解维多利亚有争议的遗产。