edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 636 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color) ;
Dimensions
31 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Exhibition held Sept. 19, 2000 through Jan. 7, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-617) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Inventing the metropolis : civilization and urbanity in antebellum New York / Dell Upton -- Mapping the venues : New York City art exhibitions / Carrie Rebora Barratt -- Private collectors and public spirit : a selective view / John K. Howat -- Selling the sublime and the beautiful : New York landscape painting and tourism / Kevin J. Avery -- Modeling a reputation : the American sculptor and New York City / Thayer Tolles -- Building the empire city : architects and architecture / Morrison H. Heckscher -- The currency of culture : prints in New York city / Elliot Bostwick Davis -- "A palace for the sun" : early photography in New York City / Jeff L. Rosenheim -- "Ahead of th world" : New York city fashion / Caroline Rennolds Milbank -- The products of empire : shopping for home decorations in New York City / Amelia Peck -- "Gorgeous articles of furniture" : cabinetmaking in the empire city / Catherine Hoover Voorsanger -- Empire city entrepreneurs : ceramics and glass in New York City / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- "Silver ware in great perfection" : the precious metals trades in New York City / Deborah Dependahl Waters
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This volume is 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."--Jacket
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Art and the empire city.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Art, American-- New York (State)-- New York-- 19th century, Exhibitions