After 1851 : The Material and Visual Cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
Cover -- After 1851 -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword by Isobel Armstrong -- Acknowledgements -- 1 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?' The Crystal Palace after 1851: Kate Nichols and Sarah Victoria Turner -- 2 'A present from the Crystal Palace': souvenirs of Sydenham, miniature views and material memory: Verity Hunt -- 3 The cosmopolitan world of Victorian portraiture: the Crystal Palace portrait gallery, c.1854: Jason Edwards -- 4 The armless artist and the lightning cartoonist: performing popular culture at the Crystal Palace c.1900: Ann Roberts -- 5 '[M]anly beauty and muscular strength': sculpture, sport and the nation at the Crystal Palace, 1854-1918: Kate Nichols -- 6 From Ajanta to Sydenham: 'Indian' art at the Sydenham Palace: Sarah Victoria Turner -- 7 Peculiar pleasure in the ruined Crystal Palace: James Boaden -- 8 Dinosaurs Don't Die: the Crystal Palace monsters in children's literature, 1854-2001: Melanie Keene -- 9 'A copy - or rather a translation … with numerous sparkling emendations.' Re-rebuilding the Pompeian Court of the Crystal Palace: Shelley Hales and Nic Earle -- Index.
This collection provides a valuable review of nineteenth-century visual and material culture. It broadens our understanding of how exhibitions were constructed, mediated and consumed and contributes to emerging critical debates about modernity and Modernism in the early twentieth century.