Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861
by Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, and Howat, John K. (Joint Editors)
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New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2000. xvi, 636 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 32 cm. Exhibition held September 19, 2000 through January 7, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and change for the city of New York. Still very much a work in progress, New York became both an international economic and cultural center: it was transformed into what contemporary observers variously termed the Empire City, the Great Emporium, and the Empress City of the West. The cultural component of this transformation was as significant as its economic aspect. Highly skilled artists and craftsmen working in New York, both native born and immigrant, grew in number, and institutions devoted to the arts emerged and flourished. With Broadway at its heart, the Great Emporium developed into the nation's major manufacturing and retailing center, the depot for luxury goods made in and around the city and imported from Europe. The complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period is the focus of this book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects. Their texts offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. This volume is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, providing reproductions of the more than three hundred works in the exhibition as well as comparative material. A checklist of works in the exhibition, a bibliography, and an index are included." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Folio. Collectible.
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- Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861
- Author
- Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, and Howat, John K. (Joint Editors)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
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- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0870999583
- ISBN 13
- 9780870999581
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York and New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
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- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 4. Late 19th Century; Media / Printmaking; Architecture / Urbanism, Cities & City Planning; American / 3. Neo-Classical & Romantic; Media / Metalwork;
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