Grand designs : labor, empire, and the museum in Victorian culture / Lara Kriegel.
"Grand Designs is a study of the politics of cultural production in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Kriegel's interpretation revises what has been the dominant account in design culture of "a spectacular modernity characterized by commodity display and consumerism," an interpret...
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Configuring Design: Artisans, Aesthetics, and Aspiration in Early Victorian Britain
- Ch. 2. Originality and Sin: Calico, Capitalism, and the Copyright of Designs, 1839-1851
- Ch. 3. Commodifcation and Its Discontents: Labor, Print Culture, and Industrial Art at the Great Exhibition of 1851
- Ch. 4. Principled Disagreements: The Museum of Ornamental Art and Its Critics, 1852-1856
- Ch. 5. Cultural Locations: South Kensington, Bethnal Green, and the Working Man, 1857-1872
- Afterword: Travels in South Kensington.