Candlin, Fiona (2001) Space, chastity and classicism at The British Museum. In: Jones, David J. and Normie, Gerald (eds.) 2001 - A Spatial Odyssey. Nottingham: Continuing Education Press, pp. 54-65. ISBN 185041095X.
Abstract
When the British Museum was re-built on a grand scale in the early 19th century it was already conceived of as a place of learning and for intellectual enquiry. In the words of the architect Sir Robert Smirke the building was intended to be ‘simple, grand, magnificent without ostentation and everywhere discovering a rational purpose effected by the best means’. When finished, the Museum’s Great Court was described as ‘grand, chaste, simple and naked’. In this paper I explore how concepts of learning, sexuality, gender and chastity were made material in the architectural space of the museum.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | gender, museums, sexuality, neo-classicism, British Museum |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Birkbeck Knowledge Lab |
| Depositing User: | Fiona Candlin |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2008 16:43 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:48 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/753 |
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