Ford Madox Brown - The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Colin Trodd
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-4243-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > Pre-Raphaelite art Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-5261-4243-0
Barcode:	9781526142436

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