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Kate Nichols examines the debates that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience at the Sydenham Crystal Palace, in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in Victorian and Edwardian culture, assessing how classical art and architecture figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, race and imperialism.

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Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace
  • Author : Kate Nichols
  • Release : 30 June 2024
  • Publisher : Classical Presences
  • ISBN : 9780199596461
  • Genre : Art
  • Total Page : 321 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 9,5 Mb

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