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After 1851 : the material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham /
Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Isobel Armstrong 1. 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?' The Crystal Palace after 1851
- Kate Nichols and Sarah Victoria Turner 2. 'A present from the Crystal Palace': souvenirs of Sydenham, miniature views and material memory
- Verity Hunt 3. The cosmopolitan world of Victorian portraiture: the Crystal Palace portrait gallery, c. 1854
- Jason Edwards 4. The armless artist and the lightning cartoonist: performing popular culture at the Crystal Palace c. 1900
- Ann Roberts 5. '[M]anly beauty and muscular strength': sculpture, sport and the nation at the Crystal Palace, 1854-1918
- Kate Nichols 6. From Ajanta to Sydenham: 'Indian' art at the Sydenham Palace
- Sarah Victoria Turner 7. Peculiar pleasure in the ruined Crystal Palace
- James Boaden 8. Dinosaurs Don't Die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854-2001
- Melanie Keene 9. 'A copy
- or rather a translation ... with numerous sparkling emendations.' Re-rebuilding the Pompeian Court of the Crystal Palace
- Shelley Hales and Nic Earle Index.