UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC3441934
Format:
1 online resource (309 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780812205657
Series Statement:
The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America Series
Content:
Things American examines the relationship between American museums and cultural democracy in the first part of the twentieth century by looking at the role museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the institutions it inspired played in Progressive Era social and cultural reform
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of 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
Additional Edition:
Print version Trask, Jeffrey Things American Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2013 ISBN 9780812243628
Language:
English
Keywords:
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