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Things American : Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205657
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Things AmericanDDC classification:
  • 708.1309
LOC classification:
  • N510 -- .T73 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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.
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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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