Description |
1 online resource |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Art museums. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Art and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Art and state. |
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Art and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Art and society. |
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Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Woodson-Boulton, Amy. Transformative beauty. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011030708 |
ISBN |
0804780536 (electronic book) |
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9780804780537 (electronic book) |
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9780804778046 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804778043 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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