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Book Republic of Taste

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine E. Kelly
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2016-08-05
  • ISBN : 0812248236
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Republic of Taste written by Catherine E. Kelly and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and looking. It was widely believed that shared aesthetic sensibilities connected like-minded individuals and that shared affinities advanced the public good and held great promise for the American republic. Exploring the intersection of the early republic's material, visual, literary, and political cultures, Catherine E. Kelly demonstrates how American thinkers acknowledged the similarities between aesthetics and politics in order to wrestle with questions about power and authority. Judgments about art, architecture, literature, poetry, and the theater became an arena for considering political issues ranging from government structures and legislative representation to qualifications for citizenship and the meaning of liberty itself. Additionally, if taste prompted political debate, it also encouraged affinity grounded in a shared national identity. In the years following independence, ordinary women and men reassured themselves that taste revealed larger truths about an individual's character and potential for republican citizenship. Did an early national vocabulary of taste, then, with its privileged visuality, register beyond the debates over the ratification of the Constitution? Did it truly extend beyond political and politicized discourse to inform the imaginative structures and material forms of everyday life? Republic of Taste affirms that it did, although not in ways that anyone could have predicted at the conclusion of the American Revolution.

Book Art Books

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 812 pages

Download or read book Art Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including an international directory of museum permanent collection catalogs.

Book Art Books  1876 1949

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  • Author : R.R. Bowker Company
  • Publisher : R. R. Bowker
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 810 pages

Download or read book Art Books 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1981 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Photographic Literature

Download or read book Photographic Literature written by Albert Boni and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Craig s Daguerreian Registry  Pioneers and progress  Abbott to Lytle

Download or read book Craig s Daguerreian Registry Pioneers and progress Abbott to Lytle written by John S. Craig and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a cross-indexed reference to the practitioners of the art of daguerrotype in the U.S. from 1839-1860.

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Date index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Date index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forgotten Marriage

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  • Author : Stanley B. Burns
  • Publisher : Burns Collection, Limited
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Marriage written by Stanley B. Burns and published by Burns Collection, Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book contains more new information about photographic history than any recent volume. It unveils important, previously unexplored, relationships between art & photography & emphasizes photography's relationship to folk art. It vividly describes "50 Lost Years of American Folk Art Portraits". The Foreword by Museum of American Folk Art Director, Gerard Wertkin, explains the discovery of the last stage of folk portraiture as an American cultural force - the painted tintype. It is must reading for photography, art, decorative arts, & folk art curators, dealers & collectors. The information presented is not available in any other source. No library on the arts or antiques should be without this seminal work. It is an indispensable reference work & comprehensive guide to decorative frames & the painted photograph. A value scale & analysis of frames is presented. It is a book of many important firsts--On the tintype, naming specific painters & companies that made the art;--On the American decorative frame, showing all styles--&--On painted photography. The book can be ordered by mail by sending $59.95 plus $5.00 (NY residents add tax) to Burns Press, 140 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016. 212-889-1938.

Book Animal   Sporting Artists in America

Download or read book Animal Sporting Artists in America written by F. Turner Reuter and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Place index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Place index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Author index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Author index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Albumen   Salted Paper Book

Download or read book The Albumen Salted Paper Book written by James M. Reilly and published by HP Trade. This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue  phase 1  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Care and Identification of 19th century Photographic Prints

Download or read book Care and Identification of 19th century Photographic Prints written by James M. Reilly and published by Kodak. This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of 19th-century printing, plus how to identify types of prints, deterioration, collection management, storage, handling and display.

Book The Art of Retouching

Download or read book The Art of Retouching written by J. P. Ourdan and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: