Art for the middle classes: America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s
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1. Verfasser: Patterson, Cynthia Lee (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson [Miss.] University Press of Mississippi ©2010
Schriftenreihe:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: the Philadelphia pictorials and American visual culture in the 1840s -- "From the burin of an American artist": artistic production in the 1830s and 1840s -- "Superior embellishments": innovations to the graphic arts in the Philadelphia pictorials -- "The fluttering host of many-colored competitors": regional imitators in the Northeast, West, and South -- "Illustration of a picture": American authors and the magazine embellishments -- "Engravings from original pictures": competing for audiences and original art -- "A mezzotint in every number": battling for embellishers, battling over art -- Conclusion: the ascendancy of New York, and market stratification
How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular, known collectively as the Philadelphia pictorials, circulated fine art engravings of paintings, some produced exclusively for circulation in these monthlies, to an eager middle-class reading audience. These magazines achieved print circulations far exceeding those of other print media (such as illus
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 210 pages, 8 pages of plates)
ISBN:9781604737370
1604737379

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