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OverviewThis interdisciplinary collection of case studies rethinks corporate patronage in the United States and reveals the central role corporations have played in shaping American culture. This volume offers new methodologies and models for the subject of corporate patronage, and contains an extensive bibliography on corporate patronage, art collections and exhibitions, sponsorship, and philanthropy in the United States. The case studies herein go beyond the usual focus on corporate sponsorship and collecting to explore the complex organizational networks and motivations behind corporate commissions. Featuring chapters on Margaret Bourke-White, Julie Mehretu, Maxfield Parrish, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Eugene Savage, Millard Sheets, and Kehinde Wiley, as well as studies on Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Jr., and Dorothy Shaver, and companies such as Herman Miller and Lord and Taylor, this volume looks at a wide array of works, ranging from sculpture, photography, mosaics, and murals to advertisements, department store displays, sportswear, medical schools, and public libraries. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Monica E. Jovanovich (Golden West College, USA) , Dr. Melissa Renn (Harvard University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts Weight: 0.785kg ISBN: 9781501343735ISBN 10: 1501343734 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 18 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Beyond the Commercial: Corporate Patronage Reconsidered Monica E. Jovanovich and Melissa Renn Part I: Rethinking Corporate Patronage Chapter 1: Corporate Patronage at the Crossroads: Situating Diego Rivera’s ‘Rockefeller Mural’ Then and Now Mary K. Coffey Chapter 2: Maxfield Parrish’s Creative Machinery for Transportation Jennifer A. Greenhill Chapter 3: Connections and Conflicts: Margaret Bourke-White’s Corporate, Commercial, and Documentary Photography Mark Durden Chapter 4: Incorporated Philanthropy: The General Education Board, Abraham Flexner, and the Architecture of American Medical Schools in the Early Twentieth Century Katherine L. Carroll Part II: From Tastemaking to Marketing: Corporate Patronage Networks Chapter 5: The Corporate Person as Art Collector: Andrew Mellon’s Capital and the Origins of the National Gallery of Art Seth Feman Chapter 6: ‘To live is to look and move forward’: Lord and Taylor’s 1928 Exposition of Modern Art and Design Elizabeth McGoey Chapter 7: Merchants, Manufacturers, and Museums: The Patronage Networks of Modern Design in the United States, 1930s–1950s Margaret Maile Petty Chapter 8: Marketing Hawaii: Eugene F. Savage and the Matson Murals (1938–1940) Elizabeth B. Heuer Part III: Corporate Commissions as Branding and Public Relations Chapter 9: Civic Space and an Iconic Brand: Paradoxes of Corporate Patronage in the Carnegie Library Phenomenon Douglas Klahr Chapter 10: Banking with Family in Postwar California: Howard Ahmanson, the Millard Sheets Studio, and the Home Savings and Loan Commissions, 1953–1991 Adam Arenson Chapter 11: Rusting Giant: U.S. Steel and the Promotional Material of Sculpture Alex J. Taylor Chapter 12: From Bank Lobbies to Sportswear: Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, and the Shift in Corporate Patronage in the Twenty-First Century Daniel Haxall Bibliography List of ContributorsReviewsMore than just a necessary corrective to the prevailing scholarly inattention to the private sector's consumption of the visual arts, Corporate Patronage of Art and Architecture in the United States demonstrates how extensively the histories of art and commerce interlace. Brimming with archival gems, fresh interpretations, and new interpretive frameworks, this collection of essays by fourteen authors examines artistic commissions of remarkable variety and complexity, both in terms of their underlying motives and their outward manifestations: hospital architecture, installations for office buildings, banks, and ocean liners, department store display, furniture design, magazine advertisements, contemporary sportswear, and even the very materials from which art is made. Often circulating beyond the white cube of the museum, these collaborations between cultural producers and business enterprise, moreover, represented most Americans' first or primary exposure to modern art, design, and architecture. This volume will not only encourage business historians to take corporate visual culture more seriously but also urge art historians to reconsider the facile distinctions between commercial culture and the avant-garde that have shaped the field. * John Ott, Professor of Art History, James Madison University, USA * More than just a necessary corrective to the prevailing scholarly inattention to the private sector's consumption of the visual arts, Corporate Patronage of Art and Architecture in the United States demonstrates how extensively the histories of art and commerce interlace. Brimming with archival gems, fresh interpretations, and new interpretive frameworks, this collection of essays by fourteen authors examines artistic commissions of remarkable variety and complexity, both in terms of their underlying motives and their outward manifestations: hospital architecture, installations for office buildings, banks, and ocean liners, department store display, furniture design, magazine advertisements, contemporary sportswear, and even the very materials from which art is made. Often circulating beyond the white cube of the museum, these collaborations between cultural producers and business enterprise, moreover, represented most Americans' first or primary exposure to modern art, design, and architecture. This volume will not only encourage business historians to take corporate visual culture more seriously but also urge art historians to reconsider the facile distinctions between commercial culture and the avant-garde that have shaped the field. * John Ott, Professor of Art History, James Madison University, USA * Writing in 1927, the American advertising executive Ernest Elmo Calkins declared that beauty is the new business tool. This anthology re-considers the modern alliance between art and industry that laid the foundation for the ubiquitous corporate sponsorship of our own time. Calkins would have approved, thankful for this new history of beauty and business. * Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society, University of Leeds, UK * Author InformationMonica E. Jovanovich is Assistant Professor of Art History, Golden West College, USA. Melissa Renn is Collections Manager, HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, Harvard Business School, USA. 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