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Art for the middle classes : America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s /
How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson [Miss.] :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the Philadelphia pictorials and American visual culture in the 1840s
- "From the burin of an American artist": artistic production in the 1830s and 1840s
- "Superior embellishments": innovations to the graphic arts in the Philadelphia pictorials
- "The fluttering host of many-colored competitors": regional imitators in the Northeast, West, and South
- "Illustration of a picture": American authors and the magazine embellishments
- "Engravings from original pictures": competing for audiences and original art
- "A mezzotint in every number": battling for embellishers, battling over art
- Conclusion: the ascendancy of New York, and market stratification.