The people's galleries : art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 / Giles Waterfield.
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Waterfield, Giles (författare)
- ISBN 9780300209846
- Publicerad: New Haven ; Yale University Press, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
- Engelska xi, 370 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 1. Britain and the Visual Arts -- 2. Justifying the Museum -- 3. Struggling for a Voice : Learned Society and the Artists' Society in the Provincial City -- 4. Unpromising Soil : The Cities of the Industrial Revolution -- 5. The Universal Exhibition -- 6. For Instructions and Recreation -- 7. Art on Show -- 8. The Power of the Temporary Exhibition -- 9. A New Style of Collecting -- 10. Education in the Victorian Gallery -- 11. Patrons, Donors, Councillors, Curators, Visitors -- 12. Addressing the past -- 13. A New Order -- 14. The Aftermath.
- "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 became 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"--
Ämnesord
- Konst och samhälle (sao)
- Intellektuellt liv -- historia (sao)
- Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)
- Art -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions -- History. (LCSH)
- Art museums -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)
- Art and state -- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)
- Art and society -- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)
- City and town life -- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. (bisacsh)
- HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. (bisacsh)
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology. (bisacsh)
- Art and society. (fast)
- Art and state. (fast)
- Art museums. (fast)
- City and town life. (fast)
- Intellectual life. (fast)
- Social conditions. (fast)
- Konstmuseer -- sociala aspekter -- historia (sao)
- Art -- Exhibitions. (fast)
- Art museums -- Social aspects. (fast)
- Art and society (LCSH)
- Storbritannien (sao)
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. (LCSH)
- Great Britain -- Social conditions. (LCSH)
- Great Britain. (fast)
- 1800-1914 (Storbritannien) (sao)
- 1800 - 1999 (fast)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Iib-e Konstmuseer: Brittiska öarna (Storbritannien)
Klassifikation
- N1020 (LCC)
- 708.209 (DDC)
- HIS015000 HIS037060 BUS100000 (bisacsh)
- Iib-e (kssb/8)
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