Screen LibraryThings American：art museums and civic culture in the Progressive Era
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| Published: |
University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The arts and intellectual life in modern America |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 296 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780812243628 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0812243625 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J114 |
| CLC: |
J114-28 G269.712.69 |
| Call Number: | G269.712.69/T775 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Progressive connoisseurs: the intellectual origins of education reform in museums -- The De Forest faction's progressive museum agenda -- The educational value of American things: balancing usefulness and connoisseurship -- The arts of peace: World War I and cultural nationalism -- The art of living: the American wing and public history -- Americanism in design: industrial arts and museums -- Epilogue. Depression modern: institutional sponsors and progressive legacies. "Things American 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"-- |