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    Art and the empire city : New York, 1825-1861 /

    • Title:Art and the empire city : New York, 1825-1861 / edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat.
    • Other Author/Title:Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover.
      Howat, John K.
      Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
    • Publisher:New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
    • ISBN:0870999575 (hc. : alk. paper)
      0870999583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Description:xvi, 636 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
    • Subjects:Art, American--New York (State)--New York--19th century--Exhibitions.
    • Contents note: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 the 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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