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Autore |
Patterson Cynthia Lee |
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Titolo |
Art for the middle classes [[electronic resource] ] : America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s / / Cynthia Lee Patterson |
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Jackson [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2010 |
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1-62103-118-7 |
1-282-94631-5 |
9786612946318 |
1-60473-737-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Magazine illustration - United States - 19th century |
Art and the middle class - United States - History - 19th century |
Periodicals - Publishing - United States - History - 19th century |
Middle class - Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction. The Philadelphia pictorials and American visual culture in the 1840's -- "From the burin of an American artist": artistic production in the 1830's and 1840's -- "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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How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular, known collectively as the Philadelphia |
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