Things American : : Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era / / Jeffrey Trask.
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 spiritu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 35 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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