ACLS Humanities E-Book: The shows of London

The shows of London

Altick, Richard Daniel, 1915-

Year: 1978.

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

Introduction

1. From cabinets to Museums, I:1600-1750

2. From Cabinets to Museums, II: 1750-1800

3. Monster-Mongers and Other Retailers of Strange Sights

4. Waxwork and Clockwork

5. Exhibitions of Mechanical Ingenuity

6. Water, Fire, Air, and a Celestial Bed

7. The Sights and Resorts of Eighteenth-Century London

8. Art on Display

9. The Eidophusikon

10. The Panorama in Leicester Square

11. A Panorama in a Pleasure Dome

12 The Diorama

13. Panoramas: Topics of the Times

14. The Theatrical Art of the Panorama

15. Panoramas in Motion

16. Scenes Optical, Mechanical, and Spectral

17. Entr'acte: Exhibitions and London Life

18. William Bullock and the Egyptian Hall

19. Freaks in the Age of Improvement

20. The Noble Savage Reconsidered

21. The Ancient and the Exotic

22. Life and Death in the Animal Kingdom

23. Zoos and Pleasure Gardens

24 The Waxen and the Fleshly

25. More Mechanical Ingenuity

26. The Two Faces of Science

27. Technology for the Million

28. Artifacts and Models

29. Fine Art for the People

30. Entr'acte: Inside the Exhibition Business

31. National Monuments

32. The Crystal Palace Year: 1851

33. The Fifties, I: New Paterns of Life and the Decline of the Panorama

34. The Fifties, II: The Old Order Changeth

Epilogue

Short Forms of Citation

Notes

Index

reviews

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Title:

The shows of London : Richard D. Altick.

Author:

Altick, Richard Daniel, 1915-

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The shows of London : Richard D. Altick.
Altick, Richard Daniel, 1915-
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.

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Subject Headings:

• Exhibitions -- England -- London -- History

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