Men at Work
Subtitle: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies)
Publisher: Paul Mellon Center BA
Published: February 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780300103809
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Art; Art & Art Instruction; British Isles; Subjects & Themes - General; Art / General; General; Art and society; Art, Victorian; England; Labor in art
First sentence: UNDER THE MOTTO "The workers, of all types, stand forth as the really great men,"1 the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened on i May 1851, inaugurating the historical period examined in this book.