Ford Madox Brown
The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History
This book argues that Ford Madox Brown's murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878-93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown's twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of historical vision, were semi-forgotten by academics until the 1980s, partly because of Brown's unusually muscular conception of what history painting should set out to achieve. This ground-breaking book explains the thinking behind the programme and indicates how each mural contributes to a radical vision of social and cultural life. It shows the important link between Brown and Thomas Carlyle, the mo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5261-4243-6
- EAN: 9781526142436
- Produktnummer: 38094446
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 270 S.
- Masse: H25.0 cm x B17.5 cm x D2.2 cm 877 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 877
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