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Men at work : art and labour in Victorian Britain / Tim Barringer.
- Title
- Men at work : art and labour in Victorian Britain / Tim Barringer.
- Author
- Barringer, T. J.
- Publication
- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Description
- xi, 379 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
- Summary
- "Featuring extensive new research, Men at Work examines a broad spectrum of the visual culture of Victorian Britain and its empire, including prints, photographs, book illustrations, material objects, and exhibition and museum displays. Barringer arrives at a major reinterpretation of the art and culture of nineteenth-century Britain as well as new readings of such key figures as Ford Madox Brown, John Linnell, and John Ruskin."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Art and labour in Victorian Britain
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-372) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : an aesthetic of labour -- Art, religion, and labour -- The harvest field in the railway age -- Blacksmith and artist -- Art and industry -- Colonial gothic -- Conclusion: aestheticism and labour.
- ISBN
- 0300103808 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004013492
- OCLC
- 55625171
- SCSB-11585101
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library