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The Great Exhibition of 1851
Contributor(s): Purbrick, Louise (Editor)

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 ISBN: 071905592X     ISBN-13: 9780719055928
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE: $28.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2001
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Study & Teaching
- Art
- Architecture
Dewey: 907.442
LCCN: 2001044115
Series: Texts in Culture
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.65 lbs) 232 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great Exhibition with meanings.

This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains a series of critical readings of the official and popular historical record of the Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine
the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. Their essays explore the determined use of industrial knowledge, the contested definitions of nation and colony, and the actual control of the space of the Crystal Palace after the Great Exhibition closed.

The Great Exhibition of 1851 presents new interpretations of one of the most significant exhibitions in the nineteenth century and will be essential reading for anyone studying cultural history, design history, art history and literature.
 
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