Nichols / Unknown / Turner After 1851

The material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1493-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Nichols, Kate

Turner, Sarah Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Isobel Armstrong
1. 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?' The Crystal Palace after 1851 - Kate Nichols and Sarah Victoria Turner
2. 'A present from the Crystal Palace': souvenirs of Sydenham, miniature views and material memory - Verity Hunt
3. The cosmopolitan world of Victorian portraiture: the Crystal Palace portrait gallery, c. 1854 - Jason Edwards
4. The armless artist and the lightning cartoonist: performing popular culture at the Crystal Palace c. 1900 - Ann Roberts
5. '[M]anly beauty and muscular strength': sculpture, sport and the nation at the Crystal Palace, 1854-1918 - Kate Nichols
6. From Ajanta to Sydenham: 'Indian' art at the Sydenham Palace - Sarah Victoria Turner
7. Peculiar pleasure in the ruined Crystal Palace - James Boaden
8. Dinosaurs Don't Die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854-2001 - Melanie Keene
9. 'A copy - or rather a translation.with numerous sparkling emendations.' Re-rebuilding the Pompeian Court of the Crystal Palace - Shelley Hales and Nic Earle
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nichols Kate:
Kate Nichols is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of CambridgeKate Nichols is Birmingham Fellow in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham

Sarah Victoria Turner is Deputy Director for Research at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art