Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861

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Название: Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861

Автор: Catherine H. Voorsanger, John K. Howat

Издательство: Yale University Press

Год: 2000

Страниц: 658

Формат: PDF

Размер: 82 Mb

Язык: Английский

The complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period is the focus of this book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects. Their texts offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography.