Repenser le patrimoine, hier et aujourd’hui. Le génie de John Ruskin by Jérôme Bastianelli

Subjects: “…Crystal Palace…”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

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La invención de la Historia de la Arquitectura by Horacio Caride Bartrons

“…Owen Jones, Ancien Egypt and the Crystal Palace. Moser, S. New Haven, Estados Unidos: Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, Yale University Press, 2012, 320 páginas. …”
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Simulacre et modernité : l’illusion d’optique dans On the Western Circuit de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…This paper focuses on various visual devices which Thomas Hardy chooses to include in his short stories in order to question the Victorian cult of progress, such as photographs, the Crystal Palace or more unexpectedly the phenakistiscope, which clearly lies behind the obsessional description of the « steam circus » in the short story entitled On the Western Circuit. …”
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Victorian Arts and the Challenge of Modernity: Analogy, the Grid, and Chemical Transformations by Francesca Orestano

“…The grid provides the structure to the Crystal Palace housing the Great Exhibition in 1851, and the grid is the structure presiding over modern chemistry, owing to the tabular arrangement of chemical elements envisaged by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and first published in 1869. …”
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