Transformative beauty art museums in industrial Britain / [electronic resource] :
Amy Woodson-Boulton.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- xiii, 270 p. : ill.
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.
9780804780537 (electronic bk.)
Art museums--History--Great Britain--19th century. Art museums--History--Great Britain--20th century. Art and state--History--Great Britain--19th century. Art and state--History--Great Britain--20th century. Art and society--History--Great Britain--19th century. Art and society--History--Great Britain--20th century.