Grand designs : labor, empire, and the museum in Victorian culture / Lara Kriegel.
Grand designs : labor, empire, and the museum in Victorian culture / Lara Kriegel.
Grand designs : labor, empire, and the museum in Victorian culture / Lara Kriegel.
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Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N745.20941/4
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English
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xviii, 305 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Configuring Design: Artisans, Aesthetics, and Aspiration in Early Victorian Britain -- Ch. 2. Originality and Sin: Calico, Capitalism, and the Copyright of Designs, 1839-1851 -- Ch. 3. Commodifcation and Its Discontents: Labor, Print Culture, and Industrial Art at the Great Exhibition of 1851...
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Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.
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North Carolina
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2007.
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"Grand Designs is a study of the politics of cultural production in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Kriegel's interpretation revises what has been the dominant account in design culture of "a spectacular modernity characterized by commodity display and consumerism," an interpretation that reifies the place of machinery and machine production in ex...
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Grand designs : labor, empire, and the museum in Victorian culture / Lara Kriegel.
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Radical perspectives.
Radical perspectives.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-292) and index.
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N745.20941/4
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9780822340720 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822340515 (cloth : alk. paper)
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745.20941
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991023818119702626
