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Art and the empire city : New York, 1825-1861
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- Creator
- edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 636 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780870999574, 9780870999581, 0870999583, 0300085184, 9780300085181, 0870999575
- OCLC
- ocn856653358, ocm44131794
- Exhibition held Sept. 19, 2000 through Jan. 7, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-617) and index.
- 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