Katz Humbug!

The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8540-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Mines the more than 300 newspapers published in New York City before the Civil War for art criticism, in order to trace the changing political positions of artists, artworks, and authors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katz, Wendy Jean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Introduction: The Penny Press 1

1 The Aristocracy of Art and Bennett’s Herald 25

2 Artists, Their Agents, and Press Manipulation 58

3 Old Masters versus Young America 91

4 The Penny Press’s Utopian Alternative 124

5 The Genteel and the Bohemian 156

6 Rearing Statues amid Gothic Spires 188

Conclusion: Art and Politics 227

Acknowledgments 237

Notes 239

Index 291

Über Autor(innen)

Katz Wendy Jean:
Wendy Katz is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The most recent of her books are Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City’s Penny Press (Fordham University Press) and The Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle.Wendy Jean Katz is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has explored distinctive regional networks for supporting art in The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–99: Art, Anthropology and Popular Culture at the Fin-de-Siècle and Regionalism & Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati.