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      Governing Cultures

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      Art Institutions in Victorian London

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      Governing Cultures book

      Art Institutions in Victorian London
      Edited ByPaul Barlow, Colin Trodd
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2000
      eBook Published 30 September 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315190846
      Pages 452
      eBook ISBN 9781315190846
      Subjects Area Studies, Arts, Built Environment, Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies
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      Barlow, P., & Trodd, C. (Eds.). (2000). Governing Cultures: Art Institutions in Victorian London (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315190846

      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

      Constituting the public: art and its institutions in nineteenth-century London
      ByPaul Barlow, Colin Trodd

      part I|56 pages

      National taste: from élite to public?

      chapter 1|15 pages

      The paths to the National Gallery

      ByColin Trodd

      chapter 2|12 pages

      Museum or market?: the British Institution

      ByNicholas Tromans

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Representing the Victorian Royal Academy: the properties of culture and the promotion of art

      ByColin Trodd

      chapter 4|14 pages

      ‘Fire, flatulence and fog’: the decoration of Westminster Palace and the aesthetics of prudence

      ByPaul Barlow

      part II|60 pages

      Communal taste: institutional discriminations

      chapter 5|13 pages

      The Society of Female Artists and the Song of the Sisterhood

      ByStephanie Brown, Sara Dodd

      chapter 6|16 pages

      The cultivation of mind and hand: teaching art at the Slade School of Fine Art 1868–92

      ByEmma Chambers

      chapter 7|14 pages

      An art suited to the 'English middle classes'?: the watercolour societies in the Victorian period

      ByGreg Smith

      chapter 8|15 pages

      'The advantages of combination': the Art Union of London and state regulation in the 1840s

      ByDuncan Forbes

      part III|56 pages

      Contradicting tastes: public art, the mass and the modern

      chapter 9|11 pages

      The National Portrait Gallery and its constituencies, 1858–96

      ByLara Perry

      chapter 10|16 pages

      Consuming empire?: the South Kensington Museum and its spectacles

      ByPaul Barlow, Shelagh Wilson

      chapter 11|15 pages

      The highest art for the lowest people': the Whitechapel and other philanthropic art galleries, 1877–1901

      ByShelagh Wilson

      chapter 12|12 pages

      A 'state' gallery? The management of British art during the early years of the Tate

      ByAlison Smith
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