Main entry:

Kriegel, Lara, 1968-

Title & Author:

Grand designs : labor, empire, and the museum in Victorian culture / Lara Kriegel.

Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.

Description:

xviii, 305 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm

Series:

Radical perspectives

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-292) and index.
Configuring design : artisans, aesthetics, and aspiration in early Victorian Britain -- Originality and sin : calico, capitalism, and the copyright of designs, 1839-1851 -- Commodification and its discontents : labor, print culture, and industrial art at the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- Principled disagreements : the Museum of Ornamental Art and its critics, 1852-1856 -- Cultural locations : South Kensington, Bethnal Green, and the working man, 1857-1872 -- Travels in South Kensington.

Summary:

"Grand Designs is a study of the politics of cultural production in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Kriegel's interpretation revises what has been the dominant account in design culture of "a spectacular modernity characterized by commodity display and consumerism," an interpretation that reifies the place of machinery and machine production in exhibits. Kriegel demonstrates both the centrality of artisanal labor in exhibition culture and the deeply contested nature of design reform. Close readings of an extraordinary cache of visual and literary representations plumbed from contemporary journals and newspapers wonderfully illuminate the discourse of design reform as it emerged in the Great Exhibition of 1851 and at the South Kensington Museum."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents
E-book - Full text from Dawsonera
Book review (H-Net)
Table of contents only
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780822340515 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822340518 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822340720 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822340720 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822390534
0822390531

Subject:

Industrial design Great Britain.
Design Grande-Bretagne.
Industrial design
Industriedesign
Great Britain
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Radical perspectives.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255652
Call No.: BIB 185881
Status: Available