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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations between craftspeople, inventors, engineers and educators. -- .
Trade Review‘There is a substantial amount of significant new research on offer here, framed within a wide-ranging demonstration of the socio-political reach of contemporary design history. The authors are an interesting combination of curators and academic art historians, some well-established, others from a new generation of young scholars, and several with cross-disciplinary backgrounds.’
Brian Maidment, Liverpool John Moores University, Victorian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4
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Table of Contents1 Art versus industry? An introduction – Kate Nichols and Rebecca Wade
Part I: The art/industry divide: nineteenth-century representations
2 Lace, ladies and labours lost: the meanings of handicraft in Victorian and Edwardian Britain – Lara Kriegel
3 Art, accuracy and the anaglyptograph: a debate about the mechanical translation of sculptures – Gabriel Williams
4 ‘Why are the painted windows in the industrial department?’: the classification of stained glass at the London and Paris International Exhibitions, 1851–1900 – Jasmine Allen
5 William Blake, the arts and crafts movement and the mythography of manufacture – Colin Trodd
Part II: Art and new technologies
6 Repetition, virtuality and mechanical pattern: the significance of the kaleidoscope for the ‘fine and useful arts’ – Nicole Bush
7 ‘Mere adventurers in drawing’: engineers and draughtsmen as visual technicians in nineteenth-century Britain – Frances Robertson
8 Industrialised graphic technologies in symbiosis with the world of art: the Illustrated London News and the Graphic c.1870–90 – Tom Gretton
9 True ornament? The art and industry of electric lighting in the home, 1889–1902 – Graeme Gooday and Abigail Harrison Moore
Part III: Resituating design reform and art education
10 Building a better class of craft practitioner: ideals and realities in sculptural practice and the building industry c.1880–1910 – Ann Compton
11 ‘A fraught challenge to the status quo’: the 1883–4 Calcutta International Exhibition, conceptions of art and industry and the politics of world fairs – Renate Dohmen
12 The industry of colour: art, design and dyeing between Britain and India, 1851–96 – Natasha Eaton
13 Surface deceits: Owen Jones and John Ruskin on the ornament of the Alhambra – Lara Eggleton
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