Screen LibraryTransformative beauty：art museums in industrial Britain
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Stanford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Stanford, California |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 270 p.: ill. ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780804778046 (hbk.) 0804778043 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J156 |
| CLC: |
J156.109 G269.561.9 |
| Call Number: | J156.109/W898 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-255) and index. Introduction : recovering Victorian ideas about art, beauty, and society -- Ruskin, Ruskinians, and city art galleries -- The public house versus the public home : the debate over Sunday opening -- Collecting for art as experience, or Why Millais trumps Rembrandt -- Teaching through art : beauty, truth, and story -- A new narrative : from experience to appreciation. |