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Governing Cultures
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ABSTRACT
This title was first published in 2000. London in the nineteenth century saw the founding of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Other, less permanent, organisations flourished, among them the British Institution, water-colour societies and the Society of Female Artists. These worked alongside the schools such as the Royal Academy and the Slade School of Art. In this volume, eleven scholars, experts on the individual institutions, analyse their complex histories to investigate such issues as: How did they generate and redesign their publics? What identities did they create? What practice of art making, connoisseurship and spectatorship did they enshrine? These reports elucidate the values associated with the key institutions and describe the responses and adaptation over time to major cultural developments: new movements, political change and the development of the Empire. The volume as a whole offers a fascinating account of the interconnections between these key institutions. Challenging conventional readings of the subject, the Introduction, by Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd, offers a definition of public art during the Victorian period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |25 pages
Introduction
part I|56 pages
National taste: from élite to public?
chapter 3|13 pages
Representing the Victorian Royal Academy: the properties of culture and the promotion of art
chapter 4|14 pages
‘Fire, flatulence and fog’: the decoration of Westminster Palace and the aesthetics of prudence
part II|60 pages
Communal taste: institutional discriminations
chapter 5|13 pages
The Society of Female Artists and the Song of the Sisterhood
chapter 6|16 pages
The cultivation of mind and hand: teaching art at the Slade School of Fine Art 1868–92
chapter 7|14 pages
An art suited to the 'English middle classes'?: the watercolour societies in the Victorian period
chapter 8|15 pages
'The advantages of combination': the Art Union of London and state regulation in the 1840s
part III|56 pages
Contradicting tastes: public art, the mass and the modern