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

O'NEILL, Morna & HATT, Michael

ISBN 10: 0300163355 / ISBN 13: 9780300163353

Published by Yale Center for British Art, London and New Haven, 2010

About this Item

vii, 328 pages, illustrated with both colour plates, and black and white reproductions. A New copy in dust jacket, in the publishers shrinkwrap.

Seller Inventory # 071714

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Edwardian Sense : Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910
• Publisher: Yale Center for British Art, London and New Haven
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300163355
• ISBN 13: 9780300163353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket 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.