New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age Paperback / softback
Edited by Margaret R. Laster, Chelsea Bruner
Part of the Routledge Research in Art History series
Paperback / softback
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Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s.
This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New York’s modernization and cosmopolitanism—the product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the city’s economic and political preeminence.
The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New York’s late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the city’s cultural ascendancy.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, 10 Illustrations, color; 60 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/07/2020
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- ISBN:9780367516086
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, 10 Illustrations, color; 60 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/07/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367516086
