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Made in Newark [[electronic resource] ] : cultivating industrial arts and civic identity in the progressive era / / Ezra Shales



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Autore: Shales Ezra Visualizza persona
Titolo: Made in Newark [[electronic resource] ] : cultivating industrial arts and civic identity in the progressive era / / Ezra Shales Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rivergate Books, an imprint of Rutgers University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina: 027.474932
Soggetto topico: Public libraries - New Jersey - Newark - History
Museums - New Jersey - Newark - History
Librarians - New Jersey - Newark
Museum directors - New Jersey - Newark
Libraries and community
Museums and community
Arts and crafts movement - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Cultivating the Industrial City -- CHAPTER ONE. The Engine of Culture -- CHAPTER THREE. The Virtues of Industry -- CHAPTER FOUR. Molding and Modeling Civic Consumption -- CHAPTER FIVE. Weaving the New into the Old -- CHAPTER SIX. A Parade of Civic Virtue -- CONCLUSION. The Industrious Citizen -- NOTES
Sommario/riassunto: What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum? Made in Newark describes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, educators, and New Women. This is the story of experimental exhibitions in the library and the founding of the Newark Museum Associationùa project in which cultural literacy was intertwined with civics and consumption. Local artisans demonstrated crafts, connecting the cultural institution to the department store, school, and factory, all of which invoked the ideal of municipal patriotism. Today, as cultural institutions reappraise their relevance, Made in Newark explores precedents for contemporary debates over the ways the library and museum engage communities, define heritage in a multicultural era, and add value to the economy.
Titolo autorizzato: Made in Newark  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-38315-2
9786613383150
0-8135-4992-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827297803321
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