Art for the middle classes :: America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s /

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,...

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1. Verfasser: Patterson, Cynthia Lee
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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 resource (xii, 210 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781604737370
1604737379
1282946315
9781282946316
1621031187
9781621031185
9786612946318
6612946318

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