The Great Exhibition of 1851

Herausgeber: Purbrick, Louise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work presents interpretations of one of the most significant exhibitions in the 19th century and should be useful reading for anyone studying cultural history, design history, art history and literature.

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This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Texts in Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780719055928
• ISBN-10: 071905592X
• Artikelnr.: 37780662

Autorenporträt

Louise Purbrick is Principal Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Louise Purbrick 1. The accumulation of knowledge or, William
Whewell's eye - Steve Edwards 2. An industrial vision: the promotion of
technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain - Rafael Cardoso Denis 3.
Entrepreneurship and the artisans: John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and
the periodical idea - Brian Maidment 4. An appropriated space: the Great
Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class - Peter Gurney 5.
Narrating the subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace - Lara
Kriegel 6. Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: authority and
ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures - Richard Pearson Notes on
contributors Select bibliography Index