The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910

Morna O Neill (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0300163355 / ISBN 13: 9780300163353

Published by Yale University Press, 2010

About this Item

Explores how art, design, and performance registered the changes in the Edwardian period (1901-1910) and helped to precipitate them. Acknowledging familiar divisions between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, this title discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Editor(s): O'Neill, Morna; Hatt, Michael. Series: Yale Center for British Art. Num Pages: 336 pages, 90 black-&-white illustrations + colour images. BIC Classification: 3JJC; ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1092. . 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300163355
• ISBN 13: 9780300163353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901–1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate them. While acknowledging familiar divisions between the highbrow world of aesthetic theory and the popular delights of the music hall, or between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, The Edwardian Sense also discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Essays are divided into three sections under the broad headings of spectacle, setting, and place, which reflect the book’s focus on the visual, spatial, and geographic perspectives of the Edwardians themselves.

Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

About the Author

Morna O’Neill is the Mellon Assistant Professor of 19th-Century European Art in the History of Art Department at Vanderbilt University. Michael Hatt is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick.