LEADER 05321nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910826852303321 005 20230126211435.0 010 $a1-283-89643-5 010 $a0-8122-0565-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205657 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065369 035 $a(OCoLC)794700697 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642686 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000626499 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11377048 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000626499 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10658300 035 $a(PQKB)10269724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441934 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17660 035 $a(DE-B1597)449403 035 $a(OCoLC)883823781 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205657 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441934 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642686 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420893 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065369 100 $a20110419d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThings American$b[electronic resource] $eart museums and civic culture in the Progressive Era /$fJeffrey Trask 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 0 $aThe Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America 225 0$aArts and intellectual life in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4362-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction Museums and Society --$tChapter One Progressive Connoisseurs The Intellectual Origins of Education Reform in Museums --$tChapter two The De Forest Faction's Progressive Museum Agenda --$tChapter three The Educational Value of American Things Balancing Usefulness and Connoisseurship --$tChapter four The Arts of Peace World War I and Cultural Nationalism --$tChapter five The Art of Living The American Wing and Public History --$tChapter six Americanism in Design Industrial Arts and Museums --$tEpilogue Depression Modern Institutional Sponsors and Progressive Legacies --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAmerican 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 generation of cultural leaders revolutionized ideas about art institutions by insisting that their collections and galleries serve the general public. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era tells the story of the civic reformers and arts professionals who brought museums from the realm of exclusivity into the progressive fold of libraries, schools, and settlement houses. Jeffrey Trask's history focuses on New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which stood at the center of this movement to preserve artifacts from the American past for social change and Americanization. Metropolitan trustee Robert de Forest and pioneering museum professional Henry Watson Kent influenced a wide network of fellow reformers and cultural institutions. Drawing on the teachings of John Dewey and close study of museum developments in Germany and Great Britain, they expanded audiences, changed access policies, and broadened the scope of what museums collect and display. They believed that tasteful urban and domestic environments contributed to good citizenship and recognized the economic advantages of improving American industrial production through design education. Trask follows the influence of these people and ideas through the 1920's and 1930's as the Met opened its innovative American Wing while simultaneously promoting modern industrial art. Things American is not only the first critical history of the Metropolitan Museum. The book also places museums in the context of the cultural politics of the progressive movement-illustrating the limits of progressive ideas of democratic reform as well as the boldness of vision about cultural capital promoted by museums and other cultural institutions. 410 0$aArts and intellectual life in modern America. 606 $aArt museums$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aArt museums and community$zUnited States 606 $aArt and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArt and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aArchitecture. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aFine Art. 610 $aGarden History. 615 0$aArt museums$xSocial aspects 615 0$aArt museums and community 615 0$aArt and society$xHistory 615 0$aArt and society$xHistory 676 $a708.1309 700 $aTrask$b Jeffrey$01602768 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826852303321 996 $aThings American$93926815 997 $aUNINA