Author : ElizabethA. Pergam
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Art
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The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 write by ElizabethA. Pergam. This book was released on 2017-07-05. The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition became a touchstone for aesthetic, social, and economic issues of the mid-nineteenth century. Reverberations of this moment can be followed to the present day in the discipline of art history and its practice in public museums of Europe and America. Highlighting the tension between art and commerce, philanthropy and profit, the book examines the Exhibition's organization and the presentation of the works of art in the purpose-built Art Treasures Palace. Pergam places the Exhibition in the context of contemporary debates about museum architecture and display. With an analysis of the reception of both "Ancient" and "Modern" paintings, the book questions the function of exhibitions in the construction of an art historical canon. The book also provides an essential reference tool: a compiled list of all of the paintings exhibited in 1857 that are now in public collections throughout the world, with an analysis of the collecting trends manifest in their provenance.