Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic

by Elizabeth Outka

Book Overview

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199921849
• ISBN13: 9780199921843
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"