Ford Madox Brown

The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History

Ford Madox Brown
Colin Trodd
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Hardback
h240 x 170mm - 264pg
5 Jul 2022 UK
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9781526142436
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This book argues that Ford Madox Brown' s murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878-93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown' s twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of historical vision, were semi-forgotten by academics until the 1980s, partly because of Brown' s unusually muscular conception of what history painting should set out to achieve. This ground-breaking book explains the thinking behind the programme and indicates how each mural contributes to a radical vision of social and cultural life. It shows the important link between Brown and Thomas Carlyle, the most iconoclastic of Victorian intellectuals, and reveals how Brown set about questioning the verities of British liberalism.
Colin Trodd is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Manchester
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526142436
Published: 5 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 170mm
Pages: 264

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