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Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape
In their day, from 1830 to 1930, the Sartain family of Philadelphia were widely admired as printmakers, painters, art administrators, and educators. Since then, the accomplishments of three generations of Sartains -- John, children Samuel, Henry, Emily, and William, and grand-daughter Harriet -- have become obscure. This wide-ranging collection of essays aims to rectify that situation. The patriarch of the family -- John Sartain -- came to Philadelphia from London in 1830 seeking success as a mezzotint engraver. Mezzotint was a sophisticated means of popularizing the work of well-known painters, and as an English-trained engraver John was in great demand. He became influential, not just as a...
The American Bourgeoisie
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
Smoke and Mirrors
The Yenidze Cigarette Factory of 1909 became perceived as an industrial architectural advertising object that placed Dresden as an important center for the tobacco trade during the second half of the nineteenth century. Born from a unique client-architect relationship between Hugo Zietz and Martin Hammitzch, the factory’s importance to the modernist has been extremely understated. Smoke and Mirrors uncovers the history of the factory’s planning, design and construction, and for the first time, apart from the building’s historical narrative, places the addition to the Dresden skyline as consideration to the formative histories of the modernist movement.
World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities
This volume examines the role of the broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 and 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community. World fairs were global platforms for the construction of national identities. The mix of national self-profiling and commercial exoticism turned the nation into a “brand”, while reframing the nation-state from its nineteenth-century positioning amidst neighbouring enemies towards being a competitor in a global, consumer-oriented trade and entertainment economy. By presenting national identities in “banal” form as feelgood factors, world fairs helped the nation to maintain its grassroots appeal across the century of totalitarianism and internationalism. Contributors are: Joep Leerssen, Eric Storm, Florian Groß, Anthony Swift, Cosmin Minea, Claire Hendren, Taka Oshikiri, Robert W. Rydell, Sven Schuster, Miriam Oesterreich, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Christina Romlid, Jonathan Voges, and Anastasia Remes.
Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire
"International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever present, as a fundamental part of these events' sonic landscape, and integral to the visitor experience. This book explores music at international exhibitions held in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom during the 1880s. At these exhibitions, music was codified, ordered, and all-round 'exhibited' in manifold ways. Displays of physical instruments ...
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Forging an American Identity
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyo. and three other museums between May 13, 2006 and Aug. 26, 2007.
Restoring Byzantium
With the exception of Hagia Sophia, no Byzantine monument in the modern city of Istanbul can rival the former church of the monastery of the chora (Kariye Camii). This catalogue brings together scholars who have studied aspects of the Kariye Camii's art, architecture, and history.
Slavery on Trial
Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
The Man who Made Vermeers
Introduction. A liar's biography -- Ch. 1. The collaborator -- Ch. 2. Beautiful nonsense -- Ch. 3. The sphinx of Delft -- Ch. 4. Smoke and mirrors -- Ch. 5. A happy hunting ground -- Ch. 6. The master forger and the Fascist dream -- Ch. 7. Sieg Heil! -- Ch. 8. Goering gets a Vermeer -- Ch. 9. The endgame-- Ch. 10. Swept under the rug -- Epilogue. Framing the fake
