Accompanying a major Museum exhibition, this book is a fascinating look at the development of New York City culture from 1825 to the outbreak of the Civil War. The inauguration of the Erie Canal in 1825 turned New York into the economic and cultural capital of America. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum and other institutions bring new insights to bear on a wide range of subjects. Their topics 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 ceramics, glass, and silver industries.

652 pages, 642 illustrations (412 in color), 9 in. x 12 in. Hardcover (clothbound, with jacket).

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Art and the Empire City, Hardcover
05-001516
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