In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and change for the city of New York. Still very much a work in progress, New York became both an international economic and cultural center: it was ...
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In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and change for the city of New York. Still very much a work in progress, New York became both an international economic and cultural center: it was transformed into what contemporary observers variously termed the Empire City, the Great Emporium, and the Empress City of the West. The cultural component of this transformation was as significant as its economic aspect. Highly skilled artists and craftsmen working in New York, both native born and immigrant, grew in number, and institutions devoted to the arts emerged and flourished. With Broadway at its heart, the Great Emporium developed into the nation's major manufacturing and retailing center, the depot for luxury goods made in and around the city and imported from Europe. The complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period is the focus of this book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects. Their texts offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. This volume is lavishly 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. [This book was originally published in 2000 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Light spotting to page ends. Shelf wear. Edges slightly sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. xvi, 636 pages: illustrations (some color); 31 cm. 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.
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4to, pp. xvi, 636. Checklist, bibliography, index. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Met, Sept. 19, 2000 through Jan. 7, 2001. Paper wraps. Includes several articles on the arts, architecture, fashion, home decoration, the precious metals trades in the city, etc. Slightly bumped at top of spine, o/w near fine. Very heavy.
