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Things American : art museums and civic culture in the Progressive Era /
"Things American gives us, at last, a history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art based on genuine archival materials. Moreover, it reorients our thinking about art museums in the United States, demonstrating that there were important democratic, utilitarian, and civic impulses at work behind the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction Museums and Society
- Chapter One Progressive Connoisseurs The Intellectual Origins of Education Reform in Museums
- Chapter two The De Forest Faction's Progressive Museum Agenda
- Chapter three The Educational Value of American Things Balancing Usefulness and Connoisseurship
- Chapter four The Arts of Peace World War I and Cultural Nationalism
- Chapter five The Art of Living The American Wing and Public History
- Chapter six Americanism in Design Industrial Arts and Museums
- Epilogue Depression Modern Institutional Sponsors and Progressive Legacies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.