Imagery of political union in the Palace of Westminster, 1830s-1920s

1830 年代至 1920 年代威斯敏斯特宫政治联盟的形象

• 批准号: AH/I024038/1
• 负责人: Fintan Cullen
• 金额: $ 6.91万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI024038%2F1
• 关键词: Imagery; political; union; Palace; Westminster

The Palace of Westminster (PoW) houses the two chambers that make up the parliament of the UK. Since its rebuilding in the 1830s and 1840s, it has held a special place in the visualisation of UK imagery. This was achieved by the multiplicity of national emblemata designed by Pugin and other designers and the selection of subjects and historic figures in the commissioned paintings and sculpture together with the agreed incorporation of national symbolism into the grand design of the Palace. This project will examine a half century and more of how the PoW has contributed to the now much debated history of national visual representation. By focussing on the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century, the project will discuss the tensions and difficulties that artists, public officials and arbiters of taste had to endure so as to make such visual representation accessible in an expanding democracy as well as in an increasingly egalitarian era. The archives of the PoW and the related archives of various institutions, at for example, the British Library (BL), the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the National Archives (NA) suggest that a thorough study of the arguments and debates about what a national parliament meant in the second half of the nineteenth century will reveal much more about the development of the PoW than a mere list of artefacts. Issues about access; the display of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh imagery in a parliamentary setting; debates about the display of a fuller history of the nations of these islands. All of these issues concerned the various individuals who worked in the PoW during the second half of the nineteenth century.The aim of the project is to produce an historical and analytical study of how the rebuilt Palace responded to the representation of the union of the nations given that in the nineteenth century that union consisted of the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. This research project intends to offer insight into the representation of all the nations using both the building itself, its architectural features, the permanent murals and mosaics that decorate its walls, for example, Daniel Maclise's paintings for the Royal Gallery (1859-61), Edward Poynter's and later Robert Anning Bell's mosaics of the four nations executed between 1860s and the 1920s as well as portable art works commissioned or purchased over a long period of time. This project will address the role of visual material at Westminster created from the deliberations of the Fine Arts Commission in the 1840s up to the establishment of the Irish Free State (1921).The primary sources will be archival material in the PoW and the numerous parliamentary reports dealing with the new PoW. Parliamentary debates will also be an important source (Hansard). These sources will be supplemented by research into publicly available papers relating to various artists, members of the Fine Arts Commission and other parliamentary committees, as well as a host of parliamentarians and art advisers. Such papers will be consulted at the BL, the NA, London, the V&A, National Library of Ireland (NLI, Dublin), and the National Library of Scotland (NLS, Edinburgh). Architectural drawings and papers relating to Pugin's designs will also be consulted (Royal Institute of British Architects and the V&A, both in London). The PoW is committed to widening the scope of its collaborations with HEIs and to enhancing its research profile. The objectives are to consider the cultural and art historical controversies surrounding Britain's seat of parliament in the second half of the nineteenth century and up to the 1920s. The state's attitude to national imagery in the UK has been an important part of civic life since, at least, the early nineteenth century. This is as strong an issue today as it was in the second h

威斯敏斯特宫（PoW）是英国议会两院的所在地。自19世纪30年代和40年代重建以来，它在英国图像的可视化中占有特殊的地位。这是通过普金和其他设计师设计的多种民族标志，以及委托绘画和雕塑中的主题和历史人物的选择，以及同意将民族象征主义纳入宫殿的宏伟设计来实现的。该项目将研究半个世纪甚至更长时间以来，战俘营如何为现在备受争议的国家视觉表现历史做出贡献。通过关注十九世纪后半叶和二十世纪初，该项目将讨论艺术家、政府官员和品味仲裁者不得不忍受的紧张局势和困难，以便在一个不断扩大的民主和日益平等的时代使这种视觉表现变得容易获得。《战俘书》的档案和各机构的相关档案，例如大英图书馆（BL）、维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆（V&A）以及国家档案馆（NA）的档案表明，对关于19世纪后半叶国家议会意味着什么的争论和辩论的深入研究，将揭示更多关于《战俘书》发展的信息，而不仅仅是一份文物清单。准入问题;在议会中展示英格兰、爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士的形象;关于展示这些岛屿国家更完整历史的辩论。所有这些问题都涉及到世纪后半叶在战俘营工作的各个人。该项目的目的是对重建的宫殿如何回应民族联盟的代表性进行历史和分析研究，因为在十九世纪，该联盟由整个大不列颠和爱尔兰组成。这个研究项目旨在提供深入了解所有国家的代表性使用建筑本身，其建筑特色，永久壁画和马赛克装饰其墙壁，例如，丹尼尔Maclise的绘画为皇家画廊（1859年至1861年），爱德华·波因特和后来的罗伯特·安宁·贝尔在19世纪60年代至20世纪20年代之间创作的四个国家的马赛克，以及长期委托或购买的便携式艺术作品。这个项目将解决视觉材料在威斯敏斯特的作用，从19世纪40年代美术委员会的审议到爱尔兰自由邦的建立（1921年）。主要来源将是PoW中的档案材料和许多与新PoW有关的议会报告。议会辩论也将是一个重要来源（议事录）。除了这些资料来源之外，还将研究与各种艺术家、美术委员会和其他议会委员会成员以及许多议员和艺术顾问有关的公开文件。这些论文将在BL、NA、伦敦、V&A、爱尔兰国家图书馆（NLI，都柏林）和苏格兰国家图书馆（NLS，爱丁堡）查阅。与普金设计有关的建筑图纸和论文也将被查阅（皇家英国建筑师协会和V&A，都在伦敦）。工作人员名单致力于扩大与高等院校的合作范围，并提高其研究水平。其目的是考虑文化和艺术的历史争议，围绕英国议会所在地在下半年的19世纪和20世纪20年代。至少从世纪初开始，英国政府对国家形象的态度就一直是公民生活的重要组成部分。这是一个强有力的问题，今天，因为它是在第二个h