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Author Woodson-Boulton, Amy, author.

Title Transformative beauty : art museums in industrial Britain / Amy Woodson-Boulton.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : recovering Victorian ideas about art, beauty, and society -- Ruskin, Ruskinians, and city art galleries -- The public house or the public home : the debate over Sunday opening -- Collecting for art as experience, or why Millais trumps Rembrandt -- Teaching through art : beauty, truth, and story -- A new narrative : from experience to appreciation.
Summary By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, this book examines the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement. These museums attempted to create a space free from the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism. Deeply engaged with the social criticism of John Ruskin, reformers created a new, prominent urban institution, a domesticated public space that not only aimed to provide refuge from the corrosive effects of industrial society, but also provided a remarkably unified secular alternative to traditional religion.
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Subject Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Art museums.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Art and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Art and state.
Art and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Art and society.
Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Woodson-Boulton, Amy. Transformative beauty. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011030708
ISBN 0804780536 (electronic book)
9780804780537 (electronic book)
9780804778046 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804778043 (cloth ; alkaline paper)