Colin Trodd

Ford Madox Brown (eBook, ePUB)

The Manchester murals and the matter of history

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that Ford Madox Brown's murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878-93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown's twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of historical vision, were semi-forgotten by academics until the 1980s, partly because of Brown's unusually muscular conception of what history painting should set out to achieve. This ground-breaking book explains the thinking behind the programme and indicates how each mural contributes to a radical vision of social and cultural life. It shows the important link between Brown and Thomas Carlyle, the most iconoclastic of Victorian intellectuals, and reveals how Brown set about questioning the verities of British liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526142450
• Artikelnr.: 64175359

Autorenporträt

Colin Trodd is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester