The people's galleries : art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 / Giles Waterfield.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
xi, 370 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-347) and index.
Contents:
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.
Subject Terms:
Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Art -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions -- History. | Art museums -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History. | Art and state -- Great Britain -- History. | Art and society -- Great Britain -- History. | City and town life -- Great Britain -- History. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. | Great Britain -- Social conditions.