| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 636 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file |
| Note |
Exhibition held Sept. 19, 2000 through Jan. 7, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-617) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Form |
Also issued online |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
| Subject |
Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Ausstellung.
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New York (NY, 2000)
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, editor.
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Howat, John K., editor.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Art and the empire city. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000 0870999575 (DLC) 00041855 (OCoLC)44131794 |
| ISBN |
0870999575 (hc.) (alkaline paper) |
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9780870999574 (hc.) (alkaline paper) |
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0870999583 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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9780870999581 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0300085184 (print) |
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9780300085181 (print) |
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