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Grand designs : labor, empire, and the museum in Victorian culture / Lara Kriegel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kriegel, Lara, 1968-
- Series:
- Radical perspectives.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial design--Great Britain.
- Industrial design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Combines cultural and labor history of Victorian Britain to investigate the relationship of culture to design, the role of the marketplace in the making of cultural institutions such as museums, and England's eventual loss of industrial superiority.
- Contents:
- 1. Configuring Design: Artisans, Aesthetics, and Aspiration in Early Victorian Britain
- 2. Originality and Sin: Calico, Capitalism, and the Copyright of Designs, 1839/1851
- 3. Commodification and Its Discontents: Labor, Print Culture, and Industrial Art at the Great Exhibition of 1851
- 4. Principled Disagreements: The Museum of Ornamental Art and Its Critics, 1852/-1856
- 5. Cultural Locations: South Kensington, Bethnal Green, and the Working Man, 1857/1872
- Afterword: Travels in South Kensington
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923630
- 9780822340515
- 0822340518
- 9781282923638
- 1282923633
- OCLC:
- 271168150
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