Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace

Zusatztext Nichols' book definitively makes a case for the significance of classical sculpture in multiple areas of nineteenth-century life, for a wide range of audiences, from university-trained archaeologists to autodidacts and from design reformers to artisans. Informationen zum Autor Kate Nichols is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge. Klappentext This volume uncovers the social! political! and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in modern Britain following the removal of the Crystal Palace to the South London borough of Sydenham after 1851. Zusammenfassung This volume uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in modern Britain following the removal of the Crystal Palace to the South London borough of Sydenham after 1851. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Leisure and Learning; 1 A New Audience for Greece and Rome; 2 Showing off Archaeological Knowledge; 3 Reproducing Greece and Rome; Part II: Sculpture and the Benefits of Good Taste; 4 Greek Sculpture and Nineteenth-Century Commerce; 5 Greek Sculpture! Beauty! and Morality; Part III: An Unattainable Model?; 6 Greece! Rome! and the Modern British Nation; Conclusion; Appendices 1-5; References; Index

Product details

• Authors: Kate Nichols, Nichols Kate
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2015
• EAN: 9780199596461
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959646-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Antike, Rom, Griechenland, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), ART / European, Art & Art Instruction, ART / Sculpture & Installation, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE