Title & Author:

The Edwardian sense : art, design, and performance in Britain, 1901-1910 / edited by Morna O'Neill and Michael Hatt.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale Center for British Art : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

vii, 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 20

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Our sense of the Edwardians / Morna O'Neill -- Reproducing royalty : filming the coronation of Edward VII / Tom Gunning -- Edward VII becomes king / Bronwen Edwards -- Coronation streets / Angus Trumble -- Spectacle, the public, and the crowd : exhibitions and pageants in 1908 / Deborah Sugg Ryan -- The Edwardian Olympics : suburban modernity and the White City games / David Gilbert -- The age of the "hurrygraph" : motion, space, and the visual image, ca. 1900 / Lynda Nead -- The condor room / Imogen Hart -- The condor room : evidencing the interior's dissolution / Barbara Penner and Charles Rice -- A room with a view : William Nicholson's The condor room / Michael Hatt -- "At home" at the St. James's : dress, decor, and the problem of fashion in Edwardian theater / Christopher Breward -- Enduring evanescence and anticipated history : the paradoxical Edwardian interior / Christopher Reed -- Peter Pan and the role of public statuary / Anne Helmreich -- George Frampton's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Gillian Beer -- Making sculpture and the two worlds of Peter Pan / Martina Droth -- Elgar's aesthetics of landscape / Tim Barringer -- Edwardian cosmopolitanism, ca. 1901-1912 / Andrew Stephenson -- A political theory of decoration, 1901-1910 / Morna O'Neill.

Summary:

Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901-1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book explores how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate them.

ISBN:

9780300163353 (hbk.)
0300163355 (hbk.)

Subject:

Nicholson, William, 1875-1949. The Condor Room.
Arts, Edwardian.
Arts and society Great Britain History 20th century.
Arts édouardiens.
Arts et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts and society.
Künste
Kunst.
Theater.
Gesellschaft.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
1901-1910

Form/genre:

Essays.
History.

Added entries:

O'Neill, Morna.
Hatt, Michael, 1960-
Studies in British art ; 20.

Art, design, and performance in Britain, 1901-1910

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267582
Call No.: BIB 199557
Status: Available