The Sanitary Arts

The Sanitary Arts

Author: Eileen Cleere

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-08

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780814252789

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Eileen Cleere argues in this interdisciplinary study that mid-century discoveries about hygiene and cleanliness not only influenced public health, civic planning, and medical practice but also powerfully reshaped the aesthetic values of the British middle class. By focusing on paintings, domestic architecture, and interior design, "The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns" shows that the "sanitary aesthetic" significantly transformed the taste of the British public over the nineteenth century by equating robust health and cleanliness with new definitions of beauty and new experiences of "aisthesis." Covering everything from connoisseurs to custodians, Cleere demonstrates that Victorian art critics, engineers, and architects-and even novelists from George Eliot to Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Young to Sarah Grand-all participated in a vital cultural debate over hygiene, cleanliness, and aesthetic enlightenment. "The Sanitary Arts" covers the mid-forties controversy over cleaning the dirt from the pictures in the National Gallery, the debate over decorative "dust traps" in the overstuffed Victorian home, and the late-century proliferation of hygienic breeding principles as a program of aesthetic perfectibility to demonstrate the unintentionally collaborative work of seemingly unrelated events and discourses. Bringing figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Ruskin into close conversation about the sanitary status of beauty in a variety of forms and environments, Cleere forcefully demonstrates that aesthetic development and scientific discovery can no longer be understood as separate or discrete forces of cultural change. Eileen Cleere is professor of English at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas.


The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy

The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy

Author: Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1469621290

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The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow explores this little-known world of bathrooms and sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation, engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene, and public health. Focusing on the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, and Rome, Koloski-Ostrow's work challenges common perceptions of Romans' social customs, beliefs about health, tolerance for filth in their cities, and attitudes toward privacy. In charting the complex history of sanitary customs from the late republic to the early empire, Koloski-Ostrow reveals the origins of waste removal technologies and their implications for urban health, past and present.


Yearbook of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

Yearbook of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

Author: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

Publisher:

Published: 1899

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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Containing the names of the officers and of members, a brief history of the institute, an account of the work ... and a copy of laws relating specifically to the corporation ...