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Author | : Christopher Frayling |
Publisher | : Victoria & Albert Museum |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9781851776238 |
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In this fascinating book, Christopher Frayling shows how the Victoria and Albert Museum's first director attempted to define the principles of good and bad design, and in doing so laid the foundations of one of the world's great public institutions. Henry Cole's provocative ideas on the education of manufacturers and consumers through design and the arts dominated national debates at the time. His gallery of false principles, which opened in 1852 at Marlborough House and came to be called the 'chamber of horrors', was in effect the Museum's inaugural exhibition. Many of the exhibits in the chamber of horrors are now lost, but all those known to survive have been recovered and brought together here for the first time. What was then despised and why makes engaging reading a century and a half later. This book is based on the inaugural Henry Cole Lecture given by Christopher Frayling in 2008 to celebrate the opening of the V+A's Sackler Centre for arts education. The first in a series to explore the relationship between culture and society, it is published with the support of the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851. For designers, curators, cultural historians and the museum-going public, the book resurrects a great Victorian experiment whose influence is still felt today.
Author | : Abigail Baker |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350114308 |
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This book explores what visitors saw at the Trojan exhibition and why its contents, including treasure, plain pottery and human remains captured imaginations and divided opinions. When Schliemann's Trojan collection was first exhibited in 1877, no-one had seen anything like it. Schliemann claimed these objects had been owned by participants in the Trojan War and that they were tangible evidence that Homer's epics were true. Yet, these objects did not reflect the heroic past imagined by Victorians, and a fierce controversy broke out about the collection's value and significance. Schliemann invited Londoners to see the very unclassical objects on display as the roots of classical culture. Artists, poets, historians, race theorists, bankers and humourists took up this challenge, but their conclusions were not always to Schliemann's liking. Troy's appeal lay in its materiality: visitors could apply analytical techniques (from aesthetic appreciation to skull-measuring) to the collection and draw their own conclusions. This book argues for a deep examination of museum exhibitions as a constructed spatial experience, which can transform how the past is seen. This new angle on a famous archaeological discovery shows the museum as a site of controversy, where hard evidence and wild imagination came together to form a lasting image of Troy.
Author | : Deborah Cohen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300112139 |
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At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Richly illustrated, 'Household Gods' chronicles 100 years of British interiors, focusing on class, choice, shopping and possessions.
Author | : Malcolm Quinn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317321219 |
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The mid-nineteenth century saw the introduction of publicly funded art education as an alternative to the established private institutions. Quinn explores the ways in which members of parliament applied Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy to questions of public taste.
Author | : Henry Duff Traill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1038 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Henry Duff Traill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1180 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Henry Duff TRAILL (and MANN (James Saumarez) the Elder.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1036 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Henry Duff Traill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Henry Duff Traill |
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Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 1180 |
Release | : 1909 |
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