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After 1851 - The Material and Visual Cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (Hardcover)
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After 1851 - The Material and Visual Cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (Hardcover)
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Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great
Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this
interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is
considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and
art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in the
South London suburb of Sydenham. It brings together research on
objects, materials and subjects as diverse as those represented
under the glass roof of the Sydenham Palace itself; from the Venus
de Milo to Sheffield steel, souvenir 'peep eggs' to war memorials,
portrait busts to imperial pageants, tropical plants to cartoons
made by artists on the spot, copies of paintings from ancient caves
in India to 1950s film. Essays do not simply catalogue and collect
this eclectic congregation, but provide new ways for assessing the
significance of the Sydenham Crystal Palace for both nineteenth-
and twentieth-century studies. The volume will be of particular
interest to researchers and students of British cultural history,
museum studies, and art history. -- .
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