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Author:   Margaret R. Laster ,  Chelsea Bruner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780367516086

ISBN 10:   036751608
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   07 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Margaret R. Laster and Chelsea Bruner Part I. Creating the Art and Cultural Capital 1. Looking West from the Empire City: National Landscape and Visual Culture in Gilded Age New York David Scobey 2. The François Premier Style in New York: The William K. and Alva Vanderbilt House Kevin D. Murphy 3. Aestheticizing Tendencies in Hudson River School Landscape Painting at the Beginning of the Gilded Age Alan Wallach Part II. Institutionalizing Art and Culture in the Capital 4. The Lenox Library: New York’s Lost Treasure House Sally Webster 5. Publishing and Promoting a New York City Art World: Scribner’s Illustrated Monthly, 1870–1881 Page Knox 6. An Unsung Hero: Henry Gurdon Marquand and His 1889 Gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art Esmée Quodbach 7. Metropolitan, Inc.: Public Subsidy and Private Gain at the Genesis of the American Art Museum John Ott 8. Un-Domesticating the Ideal: William Wetmore Story and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lauren Lessing Part III. Depicting the Capital in Art and Culture 9. Before the Farragut: Who Was Augustus Saint-Gaudens? Thayer Tolles 10. Crossing Broadway: New York and the Culture of Capital in the Late Nineteenth Century David Jaffee 11. Bulls, Bears, and Buildings: William Holbrook Beard’s Wall Street Ross Barrett Afterword Joshua Brown

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Those of us who teach should ask our university librarians to purchase the ebook in addition to the hardcover, so that individual essays can be downloaded, paired, and assigned to students in our undergraduate classes. All are well written and eminently readable by students and scholars alike. --Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

"""Those of us who teach should ask our university librarians to purchase the ebook in addition to the hardcover, so that individual essays can be downloaded, paired, and assigned to students in our undergraduate classes. All are well written and eminently readable by students and scholars alike."" --Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide"

Those of us who teach should ask our university librarians to purchase the ebook in addition to the hardcover, so that individual essays can be downloaded, paired, and assigned to students in our undergraduate classes. All are well written and eminently readable by students and scholars alike. --Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

Author Information

Margaret R. Laster is an independent curator and scholar of American art. Previous posts include Associate Curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society, and Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Fellow at the Freer Gallery of Art. Her research centers on art and material culture of the nineteenth century, including Gilded Age collecting and patronage histories. Chelsea Bruner is a member of the liberal arts faculty at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where she teaches Design History. Her work centers on architecture and interiors of the nineteenth and twentieth century, with an emphasis on elite patronage and the professionalization of architectural design in the Gilded Age.

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