Dementia's jester : the Phantasmagoria in metaphor and aesthetics from 1700-1900
In 1792, the inventor and illusionist Paul Philidor unveiled the ‘Phantasmagoria’ to the people of Paris. Coined by combining the Greek words ‘phantasma’ (appearance, vision, ghost) and ‘agora’ (assembly), Philidor had intended the name to suggest a vast crowd of the undead, a riotous carnival of ph...
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University of Glasgow
2013
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