Author: Robert Ellis (F.L.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
Author: Robert Ellis (F.L.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue
Author: Official descriptive and illustrated Catalogue of the great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations
Author: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
Author: Great Exhibition (1851, London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ...
Author: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue: Section III, Manufactures, classes 11 to 29. Section IV, Fine arts, class 30. Colonies
Author: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue: Index and introductory. Section I, Raw materials, classes 1 to 4. Section II, Machinery, classes 5 to 10
Author: Grand Designs
Author: Lara KriegelPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.
The Great Exhibition of 1851
Author: Louise PurbrickPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719055928
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
These essays expose how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains readings of the historical record of the exhibition, exploring the use of industrial knowledge & the contested definitions of nation & colony.
Author: John Murray