Inventing the nation: Diorama in Norway 1888-1894

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This article discusses the role of images, visual popular culture and especially diorama paintings in the creation of nationalism in Norway. The influential theorist Benedict Anderson has privileged the role of print media, and especially newspapers, in the creation and global spread of nation states and nationalism in the nineteenth century, and he does not include visual cuilture in his analysis. This article uses Norway and diorama paintings and diorama buildings to argue that images and visual representation were important in the creation of nationalism in Norway in the late nineteenth century. Diorama paintings did play a role in the construction of the new country Norway, that became a soveriegn state in 1905, ending a union with Sweden.View full textDownload full textKeywordsnationalism, Norway, dioramaRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2011.571037