Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition: Science, Art and Productive Industry: The History of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

Author: Hermione Hobhouse
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: exhibition, history, royal, industry, commission, art, palace, science, crystal, productive
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2002-03-05
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0826478417
ISBN-13: 9780826478412

Book Description:

This text celebrates the one hundred and fifty years of the Commission’s work, with its aim of the "application of art and science to productive industry". It is a story with some success and permanent record, and some dissension and controversy.


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