{"product_id":"art-versus-industry-9780719096464","title":"Art versus Industry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003eBrian Maidment, Liverpool John Moores University, Victorian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Art versus industry? An introduction – Kate Nichols and Rebecca Wade\u003cbr\u003ePart I: The art\/industry divide: nineteenth-century representations\u003cbr\u003e2 Lace, ladies and labours lost: the meanings of handicraft in Victorian and Edwardian Britain – Lara Kriegel\u003cbr\u003e3 Art, accuracy and the anaglyptograph: a debate about the mechanical translation of sculptures – Gabriel Williams\u003cbr\u003e4 ‘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\u003cbr\u003e5 William Blake, the arts and crafts movement and the mythography of manufacture – Colin Trodd\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Art and new technologies\u003cbr\u003e6 Repetition, virtuality and mechanical pattern: the significance of the kaleidoscope for the ‘fine and useful arts’ – Nicole Bush\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘Mere adventurers in drawing’: engineers and draughtsmen as visual technicians in nineteenth-century Britain – Frances Robertson\u003cbr\u003e8 Industrialised graphic technologies in symbiosis with the world of art: the Illustrated London News and the Graphic c.1870–90 – Tom Gretton\u003cbr\u003e9 True ornament? The art and industry of electric lighting in the home, 1889–1902 – Graeme Gooday and Abigail Harrison Moore\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Resituating design reform and art education\u003cbr\u003e10 Building a better class of craft practitioner: ideals and realities in sculptural practice and the building industry c.1880–1910 – Ann Compton\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘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\u003cbr\u003e12 The industry of colour: art, design and dyeing between Britain and India, 1851–96 – Natasha Eaton\u003cbr\u003e13 Surface deceits: Owen Jones and John Ruskin on the ornament of the Alhambra – Lara Eggleton\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037352690007,"sku":"9780719096464","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719096464.jpg?v=1750935405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-versus-industry-9780719096464","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}