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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