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The Great Exhibition of 1851
Luise Purbrick Ed.
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paperback. This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. Editor(s): Purbrick, Louise. Series Editor(s): Wallace, Jeff; Whale, John. Series: Texts in Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBT; KJP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 324.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great Exhibition with meanings.
This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains a series of critical readings of the official and popular historical record of the Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Series
Texts in Culture
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719055928
SKU
9780719055928
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About Luise Purbrick Ed.
Louise Purbrick is Principal Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton -- .
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