Kate (Hrsg.) Nichols

After 1851

The material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham

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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essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in the South London suburb of Sydenham.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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Turner, Sarah Victoria (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-5261-1494-5
EAN: 9781526114945
Produktnummer: 32341609
Verlag: Canongate Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'128 KB
Abbildungen: 44 black & white illustrations, 1 table

Über den Autor

Kate Nichols is Birmingham Fellow in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of BirminghamSarah Victoria Turner is Deputy Director for Research at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art