Art for the Middle Classes : America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patterson, Cynthia Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Middle class > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Periodicals > Publishing > United States > History > 19th century.
Art and the middle class > United States > History > 19th century.
Magazine illustration > United States > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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