After 1851 - The Material and Visual Cultures of the Crystal Palace At Sydenham

Informationen zum Autor Kate Nichols is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge Klappentext This collection provides a valuable review of nineteenth-century visual and material culture. It broadens our understanding of how exhibitions were constructed, mediated and consumed and contributes to emerging critical debates about modernity and Modernism in the early twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This collection provides a valuable review of nineteenth-century visual and material culture. It broadens our understanding of how exhibitions were constructed! mediated and consumed and contributes to emerging critical debates about modernity and Modernism in the early twentieth century. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Isobel Armstrong 1. 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?' The Crystal Palace after 1851 - Kate Nichols and Sarah Victoria Turner2. 'A present from the Crystal Palace': souvenirs of Sydenham, miniature views and material memory - Verity Hunt3. The cosmopolitan world of Victorian portraiture: the Crystal Palace portrait gallery, c. 1854 - Jason Edwards4. The armless artist and the lightning cartoonist: performing popular culture at the Crystal Palace c. 1900 - Ann Roberts5. '[M]anly beauty and muscular strength': sculpture, sport and the nation at the Crystal Palace, 1854-1918 - Kate Nichols6. From Ajanta to Sydenham: 'Indian' art at the Sydenham Palace - Sarah Victoria Turner7. Peculiar pleasure in the ruined Crystal Palace - James Boaden8. Dinosaurs Don't Die : the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854-2001 - Melanie Keene9. 'A copy - or rather a translation...with numerous sparkling emendations.' Re-rebuilding the Pompeian Court of the Crystal Palace - Shelley Hales and Nic EarleIndex

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• Authors: Kate Nichols, Kate Turner Nichols
• Assisted by: Kate Nichols (Editor), Nichols Kate (Editor), Dr. Sarah Victoria Turner (Editor), Sarah Victoria Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2017
• EAN: 9780719096495
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9649-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / History, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Material Culture, Social and cultural history