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A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
James Hamilton
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Description for A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Paperback. From the author of the acclaimed biography of Turner comes a major new work that explores the relationship between art and business in nineteenth-century Britain. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ACV; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 43. Weight in Grams: 392.
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating book, James Hamilton investigates the vibrant exchange between culture and business in nineteenth-century Britain, which became a centre for world commerce following the industrial revolution. He explores how art was made and paid for, the turns of fashion, and the new demands of a growing middle-class, prominent among whom were ... Read more
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating book, James Hamilton investigates the vibrant exchange between culture and business in nineteenth-century Britain, which became a centre for world commerce following the industrial revolution. He explores how art was made and paid for, the turns of fashion, and the new demands of a growing middle-class, prominent among whom were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782395188
SKU
V9781782395188
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99-10
About James Hamilton
James Hamilton is an art historian and biographer. He was formerly Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and University Curator at the University of Birmingham, where he is Hon. Reader in History of Art. He has curated many exhibitions in galleries in Britain and abroad, from Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1974) to Turner and the Scientists (1998), Turner's Britain (2003), ... Read more
Reviews for A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Fascinating, compelling and timely.
Art Quarterly
Any number of novelists and historians could find inspiration in this vivid account of how the audience for art in Britain broadened during the nineteenth century... This is grand entertainment as well as serious history.
Evelyn Toynton
Prospect
Hamilton is a lucid and frequently droll guide to this symbiotic ... Read more
Art Quarterly
Any number of novelists and historians could find inspiration in this vivid account of how the audience for art in Britain broadened during the nineteenth century... This is grand entertainment as well as serious history.
Evelyn Toynton
Prospect
Hamilton is a lucid and frequently droll guide to this symbiotic ... Read more