Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 - Image 1

£81.00

Oxford University Press Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880

Name: Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 81.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Themes & Concepts

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£81 today · previous high £81 · all-time low £79

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 58 days · 58 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 58 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £79 (53 days, 91.4%)

Price range: £79 - £81

Price levels: 2 different prices over 58 days

Description

Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material into a modern one, at the same time transforming the environment and the nineteenth-century imagination. It created a new glass culture hitherto inconceivable. Glass culture constituted Victorian modernity. It was made from infinite variations of the prefabricated glass panel, and the lens. The mirror and the window became its formative elements, both the texts and constituents of glass culture. The glassworlds of the century are heterogeneous. They manifest themselves in the technologies of the factory furnace, in the myths of Cinderella and her glass slipper circulated in print media, in the ideologies of the conservatory as building type, in the fantasia of the shopfront, in the production of chandeliers, in the Crystal Palace, and the lens-made images of the magic lantern and microscope. But they were nevertheless governed by two inescapable conditions. First, to look through glass was to look through the residues of the breath of an unknown artisan, because glass was mass produced by incorporating glassblowing into the division of labour. Second, literally a new medium, glass brought the ambiguity of transparency and the problems of mediation into the everyday. It intervened between seer and seen, incorporating a modern philosophical problem into bodily experience. Thus for poets and novelists glass took on material and ontological, political, and aesthetic meanings. Reading glass forwards into Bauhaus modernism, Walter Benjamin overlooked an early phase of glass culture where the languages of glass are different. The book charts this phase in three parts. Factory archives, trade union records, and periodicals document the individual manufacturers and artisans who founded glass culture, the industrial tourists who described it, and the systematic politics of window-breaking. Part Two, culminating in glass under glass at the Crystal Palace, reads the glassing of the environment, including the mirror, the window, and controversy round the conservatory, and their inscription in poems and novels. Part Three explores the lens, from optical toys to 'philosophical' instruments as the telescope and microscope were known. A meditation on its history and phenomenology, Victorian Glassworlds is a poetics of glass for nineteenth-century modernity.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0199205205
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 April 2008
Listed Since: 01 August 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Collections of Stained Glass and their Histories / Glasmalerei-Sammlungen und ihre Geschichte / Les collections de vitraux et leur histoire: ... Sankt Petersburg, Staatliche Ermitage, 2010

Fascinating Glass: The Renate and Dietrich Götze Collection

The Age of Glass: A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture

Vetripedia: Masterpieces of Venetian Glass

best of Detail: Glas/Glass: Transparenz versus Transluzenz / Transparency versus translucence

Glaschemie

Elsevier Glass-Making Dictionary - English, Spanish, Portuguese

Detail in Contemporary Glass Architecture: (E)

Routledge - Blurred Transparencies in Glass Architecture Book

The Robert Lehman Collection 11 - Glass - Princeton University Press

The Vitreous State: Thermodynamics, Structure, Rheology, and Crystallization

Glass in Architecture from the Pre- to the Post-industrial Era: Production, Use and Conservation: 2 (Arts du verre / Glass Art / Glaskunst, 2)

Fundamentals Of Inorganic Glasses

Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses

Glastechnische Fabrikationsfehler: "Pathologische" Ausnahmezustände des Werkstoffes Glas und ihre Behebung; Eine Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft, Technologie und Praxis (Klassiker der Technik)

The 2021-2026 World Outlook for High Performance Flat Glass

Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550–1800: Diplomatic, Mercantile and Technological Interactions (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)

Pierre Chareau. Volume 2: Biographie. Expositions. Mobilier.

Malerei mit Licht und Glas: Baugebundene Glaskunst in und aus Magdeburg

Venice and American Studio Glass

Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550–1800: Diplomatic, Mercantile and Technological Interactions (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)

Glass Construction Manual

Ancient Glass: Collection

Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale: 1912-1930