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Author Trodd, Colin

Title Governing Cultures : Art Institutions in Victorian London
Published Milton : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Constituting the public: art and its institutions in nineteenth-century London; I. National taste: from élite to public?; 1 The paths to the National Gallery; 2 Museum or market?: the British Institution; 3 Representing the Victorian Royal Academy: the properties of culture and the promotion of art; 4 'Fire, flatulence and fog': the decoration of Westminster Palace and the aesthetics of prudence; II. Communal taste: institutional discriminations
5 The Society of Female Artists and the Song of the Sisterhood6 The cultivation of mind and hand: teaching art at the Slade School of Fine Art 1868-92; 7 An art suited to the 'English middle classes'?: the watercolour societies in the Victorian period; 8 'The advantages of combination': the Art Union of London and state regulation in the 1840s; III. Contradicting tastes: public art, the mass and the modern; 9 The National Portrait Gallery and its constituencies, 1858-96; 10 Consuming empire?: the South Kensington Museum and its spectacles
11 'The highest art for the lowest people': the Whitechapel and other philanthropic art galleries, 1877-190112 A 'state' gallery?: the management of British art during the early years of the Tate; Select bibliography; Index
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Subject Art museums -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
Art -- England -- London -- Societies, etc
Art museums
Art -- Societies, etc.
England -- London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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