AbstractThis essay examines how the contemporary artist Mark Dion re-presents Victorian natural history in a number of key works. It considers the visualization of Victorian natural history across a variety of media including photography, installation, and site-specific activities. The artist’s interest in the historical narratives of this subject area is argued to be a significant, but thus far overlooked, element of his practice. By considering Dion’s practice in relation to the broader context of postmodernist historiographic enquiry, the essay presents the discussed works as visual forms of historiographic metafiction that seek to interrogate history’s content and forms through intertextual compositions. In this way, the artist’s representations of anonymous, amateur, and marginalized characters from the histories of Victorian natural history are argued to correspond with the late twentieth-century artistic tendency towards institutional critique in their focus upon how, and why, certain narratives ha...

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艺术家-历史学家：马克·迪翁 (Mark Dion) 作品中的维多利亚时代自然历史

摘要本文考察了当代艺术家马克·迪翁 (Mark Dion) 如何在一系列重要作品中重新呈现维多利亚时代的自然历史。它考虑了维多利亚时代自然历史在各种媒体上的可视化，包括摄影、装置和特定地点的活动。艺术家对这一主题领域的历史叙述的兴趣被认为是他实践中一个重要但迄今为止被忽视的元素。通过考虑与后现代主义史学探究的更广泛背景相关的 Dion 的实践，本文将所讨论的作品呈现为史学元小说的视觉形式，试图通过互文组合来质疑历史的内容和形式。通过这种方式，艺术家对匿名、业余、