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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157854003321

Autore

Nichols Kate

Titolo

Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace : classical sculpture and modern Britain, 1854-1936

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-179577-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Classical Presences Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace

Disciplina

733.09421609034

Soggetti

Sculpture, Classical - Exhibitions - 19th century - England - London

Exhibitions - History - 20th century - London - England

Exhibitions - History - 19th century - London - England

Art exhibition audiences - History - 20th Century - London - England

Art exhibition audiences - History - 19th century - London - England

Art and society - History - 20th century - London - England

Art and society - History

Visual Arts

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Sculpture

Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Kate Nichols examines the debates that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience at the Sydenham Crystal Palace, in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in Victorian and Edwardian culture, assessing how classical art and architecture figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, race and imperialism.