Edwardian Sense - Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910

Klappentext Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901-1910) as one of political and social change! this innovative book is the first to explore how art! design! and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate them. While acknowledging familiar divisions between the highbrow world of aesthetic theory and the popular delights of the music hall! or between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End! "The Edwardians "also discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Essays are divided into three sections under the broad headings of spectacle! setting! and place! which reflect the book's focus on the visual! spatial! and geographic perspectives of the Edwardians themselves. Zusammenfassung Explores how art! design! and performance registered the changes in the Edwardian period (1901-1910) and helped to precipitate them. Acknowledging familiar divisions between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End! this title discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city.

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• Authors: &apos, Morna Hatt neill, O NEILL MORNA HATT MICHAEL, O&, O&apos, Morna Hatt O''''neill
• Assisted by: Michael Hatt (Editor), Morna O'neill (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2010
• EAN: 9780300163353
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16335-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Yale Center for British Art; Studies in British Art; Studies in British Art; The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries