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Ford Madox Brown

The Manchester murals and the matter of history

By: Colin Trodd

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Ford Madox Brown

The Manchester murals and the matter of history

By: Colin Trodd

This book argues that Ford Madox Brown’s murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878–93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown’s twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of historical vision, were semi-forgotten by academics until the 1980s, partly because of Brown’s unusually muscular conception of what history painting should set out to achieve. This ground-breaking book explains the thinking behind the programme and indicates how each mural contributes to a radical vision of social and cultural life. It shows the important link between Brown and Thomas Carlyle, the most iconoclastic of Victorian intellectuals, and reveals how Brown set about questioning the verities of British liberalism.

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Manchester University Press

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1526142457

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9781526142450

Governing Cultures

Art Institutions in Victorian London

By: Colin Trodd

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Governing Cultures

Art Institutions in Victorian London

By: Colin Trodd

This title was first published in 2000. London in the nineteenth century saw the founding of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Other, less permanent, organisations flourished, among them the British Institution, water-colour societies and the Society of Female Artists. These worked alongside the schools such as the Royal Academy and the Slade School of Art. In this volume, eleven scholars, experts on the individual institutions, analyse their complex histories to investigate such issues as: How did they generate and redesign their publics? What identities did they create? What practice of art making, connoisseurship and spectatorship did they enshrine? These reports elucidate the values associated with the key institutions and describe the responses and adaptation over time to major cultural developments: new movements, political change and the development of the Empire. The volume as a whole offers a fascinating account of the interconnections between these key institutions. Challenging conventional readings of the subject, the Introduction, by Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd, offers a definition of public art during the Victorian period.

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Routledge

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1351750313

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9781351750318

Representations of G.F. Watts

Art Making in Victorian Culture

By: Colin Trodd

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Representations of G.F. Watts

Art Making in Victorian Culture

By: Colin Trodd

Originally published in 2004. Once the most popular Victorian artist, G. F. Watts was also a complex and elusive figure. Influenced by evolutionary theory, he reinterpreted the tradition of the classical body, while his philanthropic and educational interests informed projects for a more affective public art. This book is the first modern account of the full range of Watts's different artistic interests and practices. Offering fresh approaches to his historical, allegorical and mythological paintings, it also traces his increasingly radical approach to portraiture and sculpture and examines the institutional and biographical factors behind his immense public profile. Together the essays present a comprehensive analysis of Watts's work and his vital relationship to the intellectual, cultural and social forces of his time.

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Routledge

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0429535546

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9780429535543

Market-Driven Politics

Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest

By: Colin Leys

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Market-Driven Politics

Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest

By: Colin Leys

With the globalisation of the capitalist economy the economic role of national governments is now largely confined to controlling inflation and facilitating home-grown market performance. This represents a fundamental shift in the relationship between politics and economics; it has been particularly marked in Britain, but is relevant to many other contexts. Market-Driven Politics is a multi-level study, moving between an analysis of global economic forces through national politics to the changes occurring week by week in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyone.television broadcasting and health care. Public services like these play an important role, because they both affect the legitimacy of the government and are targets for global capital. This book provides an original analysis of the key processes of commodification of public services, the conversion of public-service workforces into employees motivated to generate profit, and the role of the state in absorbing risk. Understanding the dynamics of each of these trends becomes critical not just for the analysis of market-driven politics but also for the longer-term defence of democracy and the collective values on which it depends.

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Verso Books

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1789608759

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9781789608755

The Eloquence of the Vulgar

Language, Cinema and the Politics of Culture

By: Colin MacCabe

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The Eloquence of the Vulgar

Language, Cinema and the Politics of Culture

By: Colin MacCabe

In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin MacCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life. A radical argument emerges from the book's diverse concerns. Cinema and television - the new and democratic art forms of the twentieth century - demand a fundamental rethinking of our concepts of language and culture. What is at stake is the very idea of a liberal and humane education.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838718796

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Ford Madox Brown

The Manchester murals and the matter of history

By: Colin Trodd

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The Manchester murals and the matter of history

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Governing Cultures

Art Institutions in Victorian London

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Art Institutions in Victorian London

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Visions of Blake

William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930

By: Colin Trodd

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Visions of Blake

William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930

By: Colin Trodd

Visions of Blake considers the ways in which different audiences and communities dealt with the issue of describing and evaluating William Blake's images and designs. Each chapter of this groundbreaking study deals with its own topic, and together they create a multifaceted picture of how a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian commentators connected Blake's interest in pictorial composition, visual attention, and ideas of cultural authority with broader contemporary matters and concerns. In doing so, it offers important insights for students and academics interested in Blake, romanticism, Victorian culture, cultural politics, and modern art.

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Liverpool University Press - V

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184631111X

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9781846311116

Representations of G.F. Watts

Art Making in Victorian Culture

By: Colin Trodd

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Art Making in Victorian Culture

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Ford Madox Brown

Governing Cultures

Governing Cultures

Representations of G.F. Watts

Representations of G.F. Watts

Market-Driven Politics

Market-Driven Politics

The Eloquence of the Vulgar

The Eloquence of the Vulgar

Ford Madox Brown

Ford Madox Brown

Governing Cultures

Governing Cultures

Visions of Blake

Visions of Blake

Representations of G.F. Watts

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