The Edwardian sense: art, design, and performance in Britain, 1901-1910

Abstract

"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---including painting, sculpture, decorative arts, film, public spectacle, and mass media---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, between the neo-Baroque 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 and the rise of the suburbs, a distinctive feature of Edwardian modernity. Essays are divided into three sections under the broad headings of spectacle, setting, and place, which reflect the focus of the book on the visual, spatial, and geographic perspectives of the Edwardians themselves." "This is the twentieth in a series of occasional volumes devoted to studies in British art, published by the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and distributed by Yale University Press."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

Introduction: Our Sense of the Edwardians / Morna O'Neill -- SPECTACLE -- Reproducing Royalty: Filming the Coronation of Edward VII / Tom Gunning -- Edward VII Becomes King / Bronwen Edwards -- Coronation Streets / Angus Trumble -- Spectacle, the Public, and the Crowd: Exhibitions and Pageants in 1908 / Deborah Sugg Ryan -- The Edwardian Olympics: Suburban Modernity and the White City Games / David Gilbert -- The Age of the "Hurrygraph": Motion, Space, and the Visual Image, ca. 1900 / Lynda Nead -- SETTING -- The Conder Room / Imogen Hart -- The Conder Room: Evidencing the Interior's Dissolution / Charles Rice -- A Room with a View: William Nicholson's The Conder Room / Michael Hatt -- "At Home" at the St. James's: Dress, Decor, and the Problem of Fashion in Edwardian Theater / Christopher Breward -- Enduring Evanescence and Anticipated History: The Paradoxical Edwardian Interior / Christopher Reed -- PLACE -- Peter Pan and the Role of Public Statuary / Anne Helmreich -- George Frampton's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Gillian Beer -- Making Sculpture and the Two Worlds of Peter Pan / Martina Droth -- Elgar's Aesthetics of Landscape / Tim Barringer -- Edwardian Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1901-1912 / Andrew Stephenson -- A Political Theory of Decoration, 1901-1910 / Morna O'Neill.