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Woodson-Boulton, Amy.

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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: N1020 / .W66 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 708.209/034