Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Walpole Society
Author: The Twenty-fifth volume of the Walpole Society, 1936-1937
Author: Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects
Author: Helen KingstonePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351172824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically associated with paraphernalia. This collection of essays explores the Victorians through their materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian; which objects defined them, represented them, were uniquely theirs; and how reading the Victorians, through their possessions, can deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. Miscellaneous and often auxiliary, paraphernalia becomes the ‘disjecta’ of everyday life, deemed neither valuable enough for museums nor symbolic enough for purely literary study. This interdisciplinary collection looks at the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up the background of Victorian life: Valentine’s cards, fish tanks, sugar plums, china ornaments, hair ribbons, dresses and more. Contributors also, however, consider how we use Victorian objects to construct the Victorian today; museum spaces, the relation of Victorian text to object, and our reading – or gazing at – Victorian advertisements out of context on searchable online databases. Responding to thing theory and modern scholarship on Victorian material culture, this book addresses five key concerns of Victorian materiality: collecting; defining class in the home; objects becoming things; objects to texts; objects in circulation through print culture.
The Presence of the Past
Author: Mervyn Neville AustinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2230
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-12 (1940-1943)
Things American
Author: Jeffrey TraskPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
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 spiritual uplift far removed from the daily experiences and concerns of common people. But in the early twentieth century, a new generation of cultural leaders revolutionized ideas about art institutions by insisting that their collections and galleries serve the general public. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era 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. Metropolitan trustee Robert de Forest and pioneering museum professional Henry Watson Kent influenced a wide network of fellow reformers and cultural institutions. Drawing on the teachings of John Dewey and close study of museum developments in Germany and Great Britain, they expanded audiences, changed access policies, and broadened the scope of what museums collect and display. They believed that tasteful urban and domestic environments contributed to good citizenship and recognized the economic advantages of improving American industrial production through design education. Trask follows the influence of these people and ideas through the 1920s and 1930s as the Met opened its innovative American Wing while simultaneously promoting modern industrial art. Things American is not only the first critical history of the Metropolitan Museum. The book also places museums in the context of the cultural politics of the progressive movement—illustrating the limits of progressive ideas of democratic reform as well as the boldness of vision about cultural capital promoted by museums and other cultural institutions.
Writings on American History
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Colonial Revival
Author: William Bertolet RhoadsPublisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Frances Gruber SaffordPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392333
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the 17th and early 18th centuries--from chairs and other seating to tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, and desks. Each of the 141 objects is thoroughly described with detailed information on provenance, construction, condition, inscriptions, dimensions, and materials. Photographed anew in color for this volume, each piece is explicated in terms of the styles and craftsmanship of the period and is evaluated in light of comparative pieces in public and private collections throughout the country. One appendix contains photographic details of construction and decorative elements, and another has drawings of joints and moldings.
