Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
(Part of the Radical Perspectives Series)
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With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822340720
ISBN13:9780822340720
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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