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The Private Lives of Pictures: Art at Home in Britain, 1800-1940

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The Private Lives of Pictures: Art at Home in Britain, 1800-1940 - Tromans, Nicholas
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The Private Lives of Pictures offers a new history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home. Focusing on the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, the book takes the reader on a tour of an imaginary Victorian or Edwardian house, stopping in each room to look at the pictures on the walls. The book opens up the intimate history of art in everyday life, and examines many issues including how pictures were chosen for each room, how they were displayed, and what role they played in interior design. Superbly ...

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The Private Lives of Pictures: Art at Home in Britain, 1800-1940 2022, Reaktion Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781789146233

Hardcover