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582265
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GBA066226b411484
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Art and the empire city : : New York, 1825-1861 /\ edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat
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xvi, 636 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 31 cm
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| ISBN
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0870999575
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: 9780870999574
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: 0870999583
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: 9780870999581
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: 0300085184
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: 9780300085181
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| Notes
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Exhibition held Sept. 19, 2000 through Jan. 7, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-617) and index
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| Contents
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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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| 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
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| Subject
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Art, American-- New York (State)-- New York-- 19th century, Exhibitions
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New York-- Exhibitions-- 2000
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| Dewey Classification
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709/.747/10747471
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N6535.N5A28 2000
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Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover
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Howat, John K
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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