Transformative beauty
Subtitle: art museums in industrial Britain
By: Amy Woodson-Boulton
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780804778046
Subjects: Art and society; Art and state; Art museums; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : recovering Victorian ideas about art, beauty, and society; title: Ruskin, Ruskinians, and city art galleries; title: The public house versus the public home : the debate over Sunday opening; title: Collecting for art as experience, or Why Millais trumps Rembrandt; title: Teaching through art : beauty, truth, and story; title: A new narrative : from experience to appreciation.