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Autore |
Trask Jeffrey |
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Titolo |
Things American [[electronic resource] ] : art museums and civic culture in the Progressive Era / / Jeffrey Trask |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-89643-5 |
0-8122-0565-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America |
Arts and intellectual life in modern America |
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Soggetti |
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Art museums - Social aspects - United States |
Art museums and community - United States |
Art and society - United States - History - 19th century |
Art and society - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction Museums and Society -- Chapter One Progressive Connoisseurs The Intellectual Origins of Education Reform in Museums -- Chapter two The De Forest Faction's Progressive Museum Agenda -- Chapter three The Educational Value of American Things Balancing Usefulness and Connoisseurship -- Chapter four The Arts of Peace World War I and Cultural Nationalism -- Chapter five The Art of Living The American Wing and Public History -- Chapter six Americanism in Design Industrial Arts and Museums -- Epilogue Depression Modern Institutional Sponsors and Progressive Legacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 spiritual uplift far removed from the daily experiences and concerns of common people. But in the early twentieth century, a new |
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