Author: Manchester art treasures exhibPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art Treasures Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition
Author: Manchester art treasures exhibPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art Treasures Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375160038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857
Author: ElizabethA. PergamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351542796
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition became a touchstone for aesthetic, social, and economic issues of the mid-nineteenth century. Reverberations of this moment can be followed to the present day in the discipline of art history and its practice in public museums of Europe and America. Highlighting the tension between art and commerce, philanthropy and profit, the book examines the Exhibition's organization and the presentation of the works of art in the purpose-built Art Treasures Palace. Pergam places the Exhibition in the context of contemporary debates about museum architecture and display. With an analysis of the reception of both "Ancient" and "Modern" paintings, the book questions the function of exhibitions in the construction of an art historical canon. The book also provides an essential reference tool: a compiled list of all of the paintings exhibited in 1857 that are now in public collections throughout the world, with an analysis of the collecting trends manifest in their provenance.
The Westminster Review
Author: Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: London and Westminster Review
Author: Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves
Author: Jacqueline YallopPublisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857895613
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate, and eccentric in the world. This book tells the stories of some of the 19th century's most intriguing collectors, following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle, to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing
Author: Lorraine Janzen KooistraPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821443801
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on “drawing-room books” as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book’s visual/verbal form mediated “high” and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience; its mode of publication marks a significant moment in the history of authorship, reading, and publishing. With rigorous attention to the gift book’s aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean Ingelow and shows the transatlantic reach of their verses. Boldly resituating Tennyson’s works within the gift-book economy he dominated, Kooistra demonstrates how the conditions of corporate authorship shaped the production and receptionof the laureate’s verses at the peak of his popularity. Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing changes the map of poetry’s place—in all its senses—in Victorian everyday life and consumer culture.
The Culture of Capital
Author: Janet WolffPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719024610
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description