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Item Details
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HIGH VICTORIAN DESIGN
A STUDY OF THE EXHIBITS OF 1851 |
| By: |
Nikolaus Pevsner |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571281648 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571281640 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
18 August, 2011 |
| Pages: |
162 |
| Description: |
The Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace was opened by Queen Victoria and would attract more than six million visitors. This title makes a survey of what the Exhibition - the final flourish of a century of great commercial expansion - offered to posterity. |
| Synopsis: |
'Thirst for information, faith in commerce and industry, inventiveness and technical daring, energy and tenacity, and a tendency to mix up religion with visible success - all these qualities have to be remembered as one embarks on a conducted tour of some of the exhibits of 1851'. The Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace was opened by Queen Victoria and would attract more than six million visitors. Writing one hundred years later, Nikolaus Pevsner makes a brilliant survey of what the Exhibition - 'the final flourish of a century of great commercial expansion' - offered to posterity as the hallmarks of "High Victorian Design"; also as windows into the mentality of mid-nineteenth-century England. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber Finds |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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