Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace : classical sculpture and modern Britain, 1854-1936

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Kate, Author.

Series:

Classical presences.

Classical Presences Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England).

Sculpture, Classical--Exhibitions--19th century--England--London.

Sculpture, Classical.

Exhibitions--History--20th century--London--England.

Exhibitions.

Exhibitions--History--19th century--London--England.

Art exhibition audiences--History--20th Century--London--England.

Art exhibition audiences.

Art exhibition audiences--History--19th century--London--England.

Art and society--History--20th century--London--England.

Art and society.

Art and society--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kate Nichols examines the debates that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience at the Sydenham Crystal Palace, in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in Victorian and Edwardian culture, assessing how classical art and architecture figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, race and imperialism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 12, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-179577-1

OCLC:

908949781