Transformative beauty [electronic resource] : art museums in industrial Britain / Amy Woodson-Boulton.

By: Woodson-Boulton, AmyContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012Description: xiii, 270 p. : illISBN: 9780804780537 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Art and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Art and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 708.209/034 LOC classification: N1020 | .W66 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : recovering Victorian ideas about art, beauty, and society -- Ruskin, Ruskinians, and city art galleries -- The public house or the public home : the debate over Sunday opening -- Collecting for art as experience, or why Millais trumps Rembrandt -- Teaching through art : beauty, truth, and story -- A new narrative : from experience to appreciation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : recovering Victorian ideas about art, beauty, and society -- Ruskin, Ruskinians, and city art galleries -- The public house or the public home : the debate over Sunday opening -- Collecting for art as experience, or why Millais trumps Rembrandt -- Teaching through art : beauty, truth, and story -- A new narrative : from experience to appreciation.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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