Author: Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857 (MANCHESTER)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Author: ElizabethA. Pergam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351542796
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition became a touchstone for aesthetic, social, and economic issues of the mid-nineteenth century. Reverberations of this moment can be followed to the present day in the discipline of art history and its practice in public museums of Europe and America. Highlighting the tension between art and commerce, philanthropy and profit, the book examines the Exhibition's organization and the presentation of the works of art in the purpose-built Art Treasures Palace. Pergam places the Exhibition in the context of contemporary debates about museum architecture and display. With an analysis of the reception of both "Ancient" and "Modern" paintings, the book questions the function of exhibitions in the construction of an art historical canon. The book also provides an essential reference tool: a compiled list of all of the paintings exhibited in 1857 that are now in public collections throughout the world, with an analysis of the collecting trends manifest in their provenance.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1142

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Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1142

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Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1140

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Author: sir John Charles Robinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1668

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"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.

Author: Jacqueline Yallop
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857895613
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate, and eccentric in the world. This book tells the stories of some of the 19th century's most intriguing collectors, following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle, to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.

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Languages : en
Pages : 316

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