Art and the Empire City
Title | Art and the Empire City PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art, American |
ISBN | 0870999575 |
Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents 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. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that 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. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Empire City
Title | Empire City PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Gallagher |
Publisher | Washington Square Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-01-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 150117780X |
From the author of Youngblood comes a “brilliant and daring” (Phil Klay, award-winning author of Redeployment) novel following a group of super-powered soldiers and civilians as they navigate an imperial America on the precipice of a major upheaval—for fans of The Fortress of Solitude and The Plot Against America. Thirty years after its great triumph in Vietnam, the United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas. Stories of super soldiers known as the Volunteers tuck in little American boys and girls every night. Yet domestic politics are aflame—an ex-military watchdog group clashes with police while radical terrorists threaten to expose government experiments within the veteran rehabilitation colonies. Halfway between war and peace, the Volunteers find themselves waiting for orders in the vast American city-state, Empire City. There they encounter a small group of civilians who know the truth about their powers, including Sebastian Rios, a young bureaucrat wrestling with survivor guilt, and Mia Tucker, a wounded army pilot-turned-Wall Street banker. Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Saint-Preux, a Haitian American Volunteer from the International Legion, decides he’ll do whatever it takes to return to the front lines. Through it all, a controversial retired general emerges as a frontrunner in the presidential campaign, promising to save the country from itself. Her election would mean unprecedented military control over the country, with promises of security and stability—but at what cost? “A passionate, scary, wise, and perhaps even prophetic novel” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried), Empire City is a rousing vision of an alternate—yet all too familiar—America on the brink written by a “preeminent voice in American writing” (Sara Novic, author of Girl at War).
Art and the Empire City, New York, 1825-1861
Title | Art and the Empire City, New York, 1825-1861 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art, American |
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Art and the Empire City
Title | Art and the Empire City PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Hoover Voorsanger |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art New York |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780870999581 |
"This volume is 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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Art and the Empire City: New York 1825-1861
Title | Art and the Empire City: New York 1825-1861 PDF eBook |
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Art and the Empire city
Title | Art and the Empire city PDF eBook |
Author | Jinrui Ye |
Publisher | |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
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New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age
Title | New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret R. Laster |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351027565 |
Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New York’s modernization and cosmopolitanism—the product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the city’s economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New York’s late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the city’s cultural ascendancy.