‘And Wot does the Catlog tell me?' Some Social Meanings of Nineteenth-Century Catalogues and Gallery Guides
Of the various interpretative resources on art that were available to the Victorian viewer, the catalogue had a particularly immediate connection to the objects it described and was carried into the gallery for words to be linked directly to images as eyes travelled between page and painting. Casual...
Main Author: | Catherine Flood |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2007-10-01
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Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/461 |
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