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Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a …
Late Modernism
Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America
E-bok, 2011
920 kr
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In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism-Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky-and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to …
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
E-bok, 2012
437 kr
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This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist …
Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Av Steven Conn
E-bok, 2010
437 kr
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"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a …
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
E-bok, 2011
1058 kr
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Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious …
Things American
Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era
E-bok, 2011
504 kr
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American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the parochial worldview of their founders limited their democratic potential. Instead, critics have derided nineteenth-century museums as temples of …
Consuming Pleasures
Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
E-bok, 2012
1007 kr
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How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious …
Modern Moves West
California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2012
437 kr
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In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to support …
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Häftad, 2007
321 kr
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This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist …
For the Millions
American Art and Culture Between the Wars
Av A. Joan Saab
Häftad, 2009
342 kr
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Looking behind the scenes at the personalities and policies of such venerable institutions as the Federal Arts Project and the Museum of Modern Art, A. Joan Saab discerns a broad-based democratic modernism inspired by and engaged with the social life of the period.In the summer of 1935 President …
Things American
Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era
Häftad, 2013
400 kr
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American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the parochial worldview of their founders limited their democratic potential. Instead, critics have derided nineteenth-century museums as temples of …
Becoming Jane Jacobs
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and social fabric of the city and excoriated the urban renewal policies of the 1950s. As the legend …
Art Work
Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
Inbunden, 2008
880 kr
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"I was in high spirits all through my unwise teens, considerably puffed up, after my drawings began to sell, with that pride of independence which was a new thing to daughters of that period."-The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock FooteMary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a …
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
Inbunden, 2011
872 kr
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Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious …
Consuming Pleasures
Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Inbunden, 2012
822 kr
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How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious …
Sociable City
An American Intellectual Tradition
Inbunden, 2017
589 kr
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When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without sympathy," he was expressing what many in the United States had already been saying about the …
Improvised Continent
Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
Inbunden, 2017
647 kr
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How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard CÁndida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural …
Art Work
Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
E-bok, 2014
1035 kr
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"I was in high spirits all through my unwise teens, considerably puffed up, after my drawings began to sell, with that pride of independence which was a new thing to daughters of that period."-The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock FooteMary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a …
Becoming Jane Jacobs
E-bok, 2016
576 kr
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Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and social fabric of the city and excoriated the urban renewal policies of the 1950s. As the legend …
Sociable City
An American Intellectual Tradition
E-bok, 2017
673 kr
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When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without sympathy," he was expressing what many in the United States had already been saying about the …
Improvised Continent
Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
E-bok, 2017
755 kr
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How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard CÁndida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural …
