Governing Cultures : Art Institutions in Victorian London (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction: constituting the public: art and its institutions in 19th-century London, Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd; National taste: from elite to public?: The paths to the National Gallery, Colin Trodd; Museum or market? The British Institution, Nicholas Tromans; Representing the Victorian Royal Academy: the properties of culture and the promotion of art, Colin Trodd; Fire, flatulence and fog?: the decoration of Westminster Palace and the aesthetics of prudence, Paul Barlow; Communal taste: institutional discriminations: The Society of Female Artists and the Song of the Sisterhood, Stephanie Brown and Sara Dodd; The cultivation of mind and hand: teaching art at the Slade School of Fine Art 1868-92, Emma Chambers; An art suited to the ’English middle classes’?: the watercolour societies in the Victorian period, Greg Smith; ’The advantages of combination’: the Art Union of London and state regulation in the 1840s, Duncan Forbes;Contradicting tastes: public art, the mass and the modern: The National Portrait Gallery and its constituencies 1858-96, Lara Perry; Consuming empire?: the South Kensington Museum and its spectacles, Paul Barlow and Shelagh Wilson; ’The highest art for the lowest people’: the Whitechapel and other philanthropic art galleries 1877-1901, Shelagh Wilson; A ’state’ gallery?: the management of British art during the early years of the Tate, Alison Smith; Bibliography; Index.