Colour Revolution - Charlotte Ribeyrol ; Madekline Hewitson ; Matthew Winterbottom
Victorian Art, Fashion & Design
KORTE INHOUD
Britain’s industrial age is often perceived through a black-and-white filter as the ‘funereal’ age of coal pollution and bleak working class slums. This catalogue will dispel that perception, demonstrating how the industrial revolution transformed colour, and focus on the central role it played in art, culture and technology.As opposed to approaches favouring a long history of colour, the catalogue focuses on the second half of the 19th century and argues that this was a crucial chromatic turn, which has been significantly ignored by prominent historians of colour and previous publications.Several essays in the catalogue offer new research into key chromatic events of the period including the 1862 International Exhibition.Accompanies an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum from 21 September 2023 to 18 February 2024.Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria’s mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens’ London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours. The...
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2023Uitgever: Ashmolean Museum256 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1910807575ISBN-13: 9781910807576Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Britain's industrial age is often perceived through a black-and-white filter as the 'funereal' age of coal pollution and bleak working class slums. This catalogue will dispel that perception, demonstrating how the industrial revolution transformed colour, and focus on the central role it played in art, culture and technology As opposed to approaches favouring a long history of colour, the catalogue focuses on the second half of the 19th century and argues that this was a crucial chromatic turn, which has be...
