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"Art in the blood": Creative Families and "Sticky" Objects on Display
- Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature
- The Ohio State University Press
- Number 133, Summer 2018
- pp. 99-108
- 10.1353/vct.2018.0008
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ABSTRACT:
Curating an exhibition presents a variety of challenges, from organizing the logistics for the display itself to conducting the scholarship behind the exhibition and arranging the afterlives of the public presentation of scholarship. This essay discusses the kinds of challenges faced and treasures uncovered while co-curating the exhibition "Keeping in the Family: British and Irish Literary Generations 1770-1930" with Thomas McLean at the University of Otago. It reflects on the "sticky" potential of exhibition artifacts (the fostering of a lingering emotional experience in gallery visitors) and argues for more fully recognizing the important role of kinship in creative production—that is, the notion of "art in the blood."