Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901–1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate them. While acknowledging familiar divisions between the highbrow world of aesthetic theory and the popular delights of the music hall, or between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, The Edwardian Sense also discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Essays are divided into three sections under the broad headings of spectacle, setting, and place, which reflect the book’s focus on the visual, spatial, and geographic perspectives of the Edwardians themselves.Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Explores how art, design, and performance registered the changes in the Edwardian period (1901-1910) and helped to precipitate them. Acknowledging familiar divisions between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, this title discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city.
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“A handsome volume . . . in which a group of scholars and experts sift through a remarkable array of evidence . . . [in] many fine essays.” —Honoria St. Cyr, Open Letters Monthly
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780300163353
Publisert
2010-06-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Yale University Press
Vekt
1111 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336