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Transformative beauty : art museums in industrial Britain / Amy Woodson-Boulton.
LIBRA N1020 .W66 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodson-Boulton, Amy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art museums--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Art museums.
- Art museums--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Art and state--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Art and state.
- Art and state--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Art and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Art and society.
- Art and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction : recovering Victorian ideas about art, beauty, and society
- Ruskin, Ruskinians, and city art galleries
- The public house or the public home : the debate over Sunday opening
- Collecting for art as experience, or why Millais trumps Rembrandt
- Teaching through art : beauty, truth, and story
- A new narrative : from experience to appreciation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804778046
- 0804778043
- OCLC:
- 746316026
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