{"title":"Introducing the Enlightenment: The Salon","authors":"L. Trench","doi":"10.1080/20511817.2017.1352222","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Enlightenment, with its belief in reason, equality and progress, was crucial to the evolution of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. This article explains how the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) went about exploring this movement and its values through the creation of “The Salon,” a gallery space for intellectual activity – for reflection, discussion, music and events. Displays of busts and books evoke the intellectual and social world of the Enlightenment, while a contemporary commission The Globe embodies the connections between our modern world and that of the past, between Europe and the wider world, between museum objects and abstract ideas.","PeriodicalId":55901,"journal":{"name":"Luxury-History Culture Consumption","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20511817.2017.1352222","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Luxury-History Culture Consumption","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20511817.2017.1352222","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The Enlightenment, with its belief in reason, equality and progress, was crucial to the evolution of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. This article explains how the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) went about exploring this movement and its values through the creation of “The Salon,” a gallery space for intellectual activity – for reflection, discussion, music and events. Displays of busts and books evoke the intellectual and social world of the Enlightenment, while a contemporary commission The Globe embodies the connections between our modern world and that of the past, between Europe and the wider world, between museum objects and abstract ideas.