High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 Moore James
High culture and tall chimneys examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major Lancashire…
Specifikacia High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 Moore James
High culture and tall chimneys examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major Lancashire town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised at home and abroad. The book documents the remarkable rise of visual art in Lancashire, along with the rise of the commercial and professional classes who supported it.The new industrial towns of Lancashire looked to the cultural history of other great civilisations, and in particular the history of their art, to understand the rapidly changing world around them. Roscoe's Liverpool of the late-eighteenth century emulated Medici's Florence, Fairbairn's Manchester looked to Rome, while a century later Preston built an art gallery as a tribute to Periclean Athens. Yet the art institutions