TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waterfield,Giles
TI  - The people's galleries: art museums and exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 
SN  - 9780300209846
AV  - N1020 .W28 2015
U1  - 708.209 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Art museums
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Art and state
KW  - Art and society
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-347) and index; 1. Britain and the Visual Arts -- 2. Justifying the Museum -- 3. Struggling for a Voice : Learned Society and the Artists' Society in the Provincial City -- 4. Unpromising Soil : The Cities of the Industrial Revolution -- 5. The Universal Exhibition -- 6. For Instructions and Recreation -- 7. Art on Show -- 8. The Power of the Temporary Exhibition -- 9. A New Style of Collecting -- 10. Education in the Victorian Gallery -- 11. Patrons, Donors, Councillors, Curators, Visitors -- 12. Addressing the past -- 13. A New Order -- 14. The Aftermath
N2  - "This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham were immensely popular and attracted enthusiastic audiences. The People's Galleries traces the rise of art museums in Britain through World War I, focusing on the phenomenon of municipal galleries. This richly illustrated book argues that these regional museums represented a new type of institution: an art gallery for a working-class audience, appropriate for the rapidly expanding cities and shaped by liberal ideals. As their broad appeal weakened with the new century, they adapted and became more conventional. Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation"--; "This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham were immensely popular and attracted enthusiastic audiences. The People's Galleries traces the rise of art museums in Britain through World War I, focusing on the phenomenon of municipal galleries. This richly illustrated book argues that these regional museums represented a new type of institution: an art gallery for a working-class audience, appropriate for the rapidly expanding cities and shaped by liberal ideals. As their broad appeal weakened with the new century, they adapted and became more conventional. Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation"--
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