The people's galleries : art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800 - 1914

"This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and...

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Main Author: Waterfield, Giles (Author, VerfasserIn)
Corporate Author: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Herausgebendes Organ)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: [London] : The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art , [2015]
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press , [2015]
Subjects:
Großbritannien
Museum
Öffentlichkeit
Gesellschaft
Geistesleben
Geschichte 1800-1914
Kunstmuseum
Kunstausstellung
Rezensiertes Werk
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century
Great Britain > Social conditions
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Author Notes:Giles Waterfield
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Britain and the Visual Arts2. Justifying the Museum
  • 3. Struggling for a Voice : Learned Society and the Artists' Society in the Provincial City
  • 4. Unpromising Soil : The Cities of the Industrial Revolution
  • 5. The Universal Exhibition
  • 6. For Instructions and Recreation
  • 7. Art on Show
  • 8. The Power of the Temporary Exhibition
  • 9. A New Style of Collecting
  • 10. Education in the Victorian Gallery
  • 11. Patrons, Donors, Councillors, Curators, Visitors
  • 12. Addressing the past
  • 13. A New Order
  • 14. The Aftermath.
  • Literaturverz. S. 343 - 370

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