Grand Designs
Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2008
328 pages
978-0-8223-9053-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
74 illus., including 8 in color
74 illus., including 8 in color
File size
6,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-9053-4 (9780822390534)
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Lara Kriegel is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University.
Content
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
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
