The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901–1910

Edited by Morna O'Neill and Michael Hatt

Essays by Tom Gunning, Bronwen Edwards, Angus Trumble, Deborah Sugg Ryan, David Gilbert, Lynda Nead, Imogen Hart, Barbara Penner, Charles Rice, Michael Hatt, Christopher Breward, Cristopher Reed, Anne Helmreich, Gillian Beer, Martina Droth, Tim Barringer, Andrew Stephenson, and Morna O'Neill

Published by the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press

336 pages, 10 x 7 inches, 86 illustrations, cloth, ISBN 978-0300163353

Publication date: June 29, 2010

Description

Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901–1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate them. While acknowledging familiar divisions between the highbrow world of aesthetic theory and the popular delights of the music hall, or between the neobaroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, The Edwardian Sense also discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Essays are divided into three sections under the broad headings of spectacle, setting, and place, which reflect the book’s focus on the visual, spatial, and geographic perspectives of the Edwardians themselves.