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Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain Amy Woodson-Boulton
Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain
Amy Woodson-Boulton
This book uses the histories of the city art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester to reveal, examine, and follow the consequences of the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement: the attempt to contain the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism through the experience of beauty.
328 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 21, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804778046 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 236 × 21 mm · 498 g |