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Informationen zum Autor Lara Kriegel Klappentext Combines cultural and labor history of Victorian Britain to investigate the relationship of culture to design, the role of the marketplace in the making of cultural institutions such as museums, and England's eventual loss of industrial superiority. Zusammenfassung A history of industrial design reform in 19th century Britain. This book demonstrates that preoccupations with trade! labour! and manufacture lay at the heart of Victorian-era debates about cultural institutions. It shows how Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and in the process to refashion London's public culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv 1. Introduction Chapter One. Configuring Design: Artisans, Aesthetics, and Aspiration in Early Victorian Britain 19 Chapter Two. Originality and Sin: Calico, Capitalism, and the Copyright of Design, 1839-1851 52 Chapter Three. Commodification and Its Discontents: Labor, Print Culture, and Industrial Art at the Great Exhibition of 1851 86 Chapter Four. Principled Disagreements: The Museum of Ornamental Art and Its Critics, 1852-1856 126 Chapter Five. Cultural Locations: South Kensington, Bethnal Green, and the Working Man, 1857-1872 160 Afterword. Travels in South kensington 191 Notes 203 Bibliography 253 Index 293
