Lara Kriegel

Grand Designs

Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combines cultural and labor history of Victorian Britain to investigate the relationship of culture to design, the role of the marketplace in the making of cultural institutions such as museums, and England's eventual loss of industrial superiority.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340720
• ISBN-10: 0822340720
• Artikelnr.: 22886826

Autorenporträt

Lara Kriegel is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xv
1. Introduction
Chapter One. Configuring Design: Artisans, Aesthetics, and Aspiration in
Early Victorian Britain 19
Chapter Two. Originality and Sin: Calico, Capitalism, and the Copyright of
Design, 1839-1851 52
Chapter Three. Commodification and Its Discontents: Labor, Print Culture,
and Industrial Art at the Great Exhibition of 1851 86
Chapter Four. Principled Disagreements: The Museum of Ornamental Art and
Its Critics, 1852-1856 126
Chapter Five. Cultural Locations: South Kensington, Bethnal Green, and the
Working Man, 1857-1872 160
Afterword. Travels in South kensington 191
Notes 203
Bibliography 253
Index 293