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The People's Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914

Door Giles Waterfield

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#401214-LA20
Titel	The People's Galleries: Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914
Auteur	Waterfield, Giles
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	0300209843
ISBN13	9780300209846
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	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 Nottingham were immensely popular and attracted enthusiastic audiences. The People's Galleries traces the rise of art museums in Britain through World War I, focusing on the phenomenon of municipal galleries. This richly illustrated book argues that these regional museums represented a new type of institution: an art gallery for a working-class audience, appropriate for the rapidly expanding cities and shaped by liberal ideals. As their broad appeal weakened with the new century, they adapted and bec... (Lees verder)ame more conventional. Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Pagina's	369
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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