Transformative Beauty

Transformative Beauty

EnglishHardback
Woodson-Boulton Amy
Stanford University Press
EAN: 9780804778046
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Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, Transformative Beauty examines the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement. These museums attempted to create a space free from the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism. Deeply engaged with the social criticism of John Ruskin, reformers created a new, prominent urban institution, a domesticated public space that not only aimed to provide refuge from the corrosive effects of industrial society but also provided a remarkably unified secular alternative to traditional religion. Woodson-Boulton raises provocative questions about the meaning and use of art in relation to artistic practice, urban development, social justice, education, and class. In today's context of global austerity and shrinking government support of public cultural institutions, this book is a timely consideration of arts policy and purposes in modern society.

EAN 9780804778046
ISBN 0804778043
Binding Hardback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Publication date March 21, 2012
Pages 288
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country United States
Authors Woodson-Boulton Amy
Illustrations 16 figures