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

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 Victoria...

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Main Author: Nichols, Kate (Author)
Format: Thesis/Dissertation Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2015
Edition:1. ed.
Series:Classical presences
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596461.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596461.001.0001
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 305 S.) Ill.
ISBN:9780191795770
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596461.001.0001