Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
ISBN:
9780804780537
Content:
This book uses the histories of the city art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester to reveal, examine, and follow the consequences of the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement: the attempt to contain the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism through the experience of beauty.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Recovering Victorian Ideas About Art, Beauty, and Society -- 1. Ruskin, Ruskinians, and City Art Galleries -- 2. The Public House Versus the Public Home: The Debate over Sunday Opening -- 3. Collecting for Art as Experience, or Why Millais Trumps Rembrandt -- 4. Teaching Through Art: Beauty, Truth, and Story -- 5. A New Narrative: From Experience to Appreciation -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804778046
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804778046
Language:
English
Keywords:
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