After 1851 : the material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham / edited by Kate Nichols and Sarah Victoria Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nichols, Kate, editor.

Turner, Sarah Victoria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England)--History.

Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England).

Modernism (Art).

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in the South London suburb of Sydenham. It brings together research on objects, materials and subjects as diverse as those represented under the glass roof of the Sydenham Palace itself; from the Venus de Milo to Sheffield steel, souvenir 'peep eggs' to war memorials, portrait busts to imperial pageants, tropical plants to cartoons made by artists on the spot, copies of paintings from ancient caves in India to 1950s film. Essays do not simply catalogue and collect this eclectic congregation, but provide new ways for assessing the significance of the Sydenham Crystal Palace for both nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies. The volume will be of particular interest to researchers and students of British cultural history, museum studies, and art history.

Contents:

1 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?' The Crystal Palace after 1851 / Kate Nichols Nichols, Kate, Sarah Victoria Turner Turner, Sarah Victoria 1

2 'A present from the Crystal Palace': souvenirs of Sydenham, miniature views and material memory / Verity Hunt Hunt, Verity 24

3 The cosmopolitan world of Victorian portraiture: the Crystal Palace portrait gallery, c.1854 / Jason Edwards Edwards, Jason 47

4 The armless artist and the lightning cartoonist: performing popular culture at the Crystal Palace c.1900 / Ann Roberts Roberts, Ann 73

5 '[M]anly beauty and muscular strength': sculpture, sport and the nation at the Crystal Palace, 1854-1918 / Kate Nichols Nichols, Kate 97

6 From Ajanta to Sydenham: 'Indian' art at the Sydenham Palace / Sarah Victoria Turner Turner, Sarah Victoria 122

7 Peculiar pleasure in the ruined Crystal Palace / James Boaden Boaden, James 143

8 Dinosaurs Don't Die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854-2001 / Melanie Keene Keene, Melanie 159

9 'A copy - or rather a translation ... with numerous sparkling emendations.' Re-rebuilding the Pompeian Court of the Crystal Palace / Shelley Hales Hales, Shelley, Nic Earle Earle, Nic 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719096495

0719096499

OCLC:

961212504