The people's galleries : art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 / Giles Waterfield.
The people's galleries : art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 / Giles Waterfield.
The people's galleries : art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 / Giles Waterfield.
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Publisher
New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2015]
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GQ 2016/609
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English
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Physical content
xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Britain and the Visual Arts -- Justifying the Museum -- Struggling for a Voice : the Learned Society and Artists' Society in the Provincial City -- Unpromising Soil : The Cities of the Industrial Revolution and the Earliest Civic Art Galleries -- The Universal Exhibition -- For Instructions and Recr...
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Publisher
New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2015]
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
"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 enthus...
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The people's galleries : art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 / Giles Waterfield.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-347) and index.
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GQ 2016/609
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74VKz47ZJNVA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKz47ZJNVA
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ISBN
9780300209846
MMS ID
991023578849702626
