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Grand Designs : Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture /

"Grand Designs is a study of the politics of cultural production in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Kriegel's interpretation revises what has been the dominant account in design culture of "a spectacular modernity characterized by commodity display and consumerism," an interpret...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kriegel, Lara, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Configuring design : artisans, aesthetics, and aspiration in early Victorian Britain
  • Originality and sin : calico, capitalism, and the copyright of designs, 1839-1851
  • Commodification and its discontents : labor, print culture, and industrial art at the Great Exhibition of 1851
  • Principled disagreements : the Museum of Ornamental Art and its critics, 1852-1856
  • Cultural locations : South Kensington, Bethnal Green, and the working man, 1857-1872
  • Travels in South Kensington.