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LEADER: 03445cam a2200445 i 4500
001 2014041638
003 DLC
005 20151126081309.0
008 150107s2015 ctua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014041638
020 $a9780300209846 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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050 00 $aN1020$b.W28 2015
082 00 $a708.209$223
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100 1 $aWaterfield, Giles,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe people's galleries :$bart museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 /$cGiles Waterfield.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bPublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axi, 370 pages :$billustrations ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham were immensely popular and attracted enthusiastic audiences. The People's Galleries traces the rise of art museums in Britain through World War I, focusing on the phenomenon of municipal galleries. This richly illustrated book argues that these regional museums represented a new type of institution: an art gallery for a working-class audience, appropriate for the rapidly expanding cities and shaped by liberal ideals. As their broad appeal weakened with the new century, they adapted and became more conventional. Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-347) and index.
505 0 $aBritain and the Visual Arts -- Justifying the Museum -- Struggling for a Voice : the Learned Society and Artists' Society in the Provincial City -- Unpromising Soil : The Cities of the Industrial Revolution and the Earliest Civic Art Galleries -- The Universal Exhibition -- For Instructions and Recreation -- Art on Show -- 8. The Temporary Exhibition : Nest or Cuckoo? -- A New Style of Collecting -- Education in the Victorian Gallery -- Patrons, Donors, Councillors, Curators, Visitors -- Addressing the Past -- A New Order -- The Aftermath.
650 0 $aArt museums$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aArt museums$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArt$zGreat Britain$xExhibitions$xHistory.
650 0 $aArt museums$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aArt and state$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aArt and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology.$2bisacsh