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The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 - Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public (Paperback)
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The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 - Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public (Paperback)
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An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first
book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition
of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady
time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition became a touchstone for
aesthetic, social, and economic issues of the mid-nineteenth
century. Reverberations of this moment can be followed to the
present day in the discipline of art history and its practice in
public museums of Europe and America. Highlighting the tension
between art and commerce, philanthropy and profit, the book
examines the Exhibition's organization and the presentation of the
works of art in the purpose-built Art Treasures Palace. Pergam
places the Exhibition in the context of contemporary debates about
museum architecture and display. With an analysis of the reception
of both "Ancient" and "Modern" paintings, the book questions the
function of exhibitions in the construction of an art historical
canon. The book also provides an essential reference tool: a
compiled list of all of the paintings exhibited in 1857 that are
now in public collections throughout the world, with an analysis of
the collecting trends manifest in their provenance.
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