Screen LibraryThings american : art museums and civic culture in the progressive era /
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.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The arts and intellectual life in modern america
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205657 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812205657.jpg |
| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 35 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205657 |
| Index Number: | N510 |
| CLC: | J171.2-28 |
| 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. |