James Gibbons Huneker's Criticism of the Fine Arts

James Gibbons Huneker's Criticism of the Fine Arts
Title James Gibbons Huneker's Criticism of the Fine Arts PDF eBook
Author Sarah Ann Lasersohn Feldner
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 1949
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James Gibbons Huneker

James Gibbons Huneker
Title James Gibbons Huneker PDF eBook
Author Arnold T. Schwab
Publisher Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press
Pages 420
Release 1963
Genre Litterateurs
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A biography of James Huneker, an American art, book, music, theater critic and author.

Topics

Topics
Title Topics PDF eBook
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Pages 710
Release 1920
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The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society

The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Title The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society PDF eBook
Author American-Irish Historical Society
Publisher
Pages 340
Release 1921
Genre Ethnology
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Contains the Society's meetings, proceedings, etc.

The Literature of the American People

The Literature of the American People
Title The Literature of the American People PDF eBook
Author Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher Ardent Media
Pages 1200
Release 1951
Genre American literature
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The Encyclopedia of New York City

The Encyclopedia of New York City
Title The Encyclopedia of New York City PDF eBook
Author Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 1582
Release 2010-12-01
Genre Reference
ISBN 0300114656

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Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.

American Culture, American Tastes

American Culture, American Tastes
Title American Culture, American Tastes PDF eBook
Author Michael Kammen
Publisher Knopf
Pages 300
Release 2012-10-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0307827712

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Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them. Professor Kammen shows how the post-traditional popular culture that flourished after the 1880s became full-blown mass culture after World War II, in an era of unprecedented affluence and travel. He charts the influence of advertising and opinion polling; the development of standardized products, shopping centers, and mass-marketing; the separation of youth and adult culture; the gradual repudiation of the genteel tradition; and the commercialization of organized entertainment. He stresses the significance of television in the shaping of mass culture, and of consumerism in its reconfiguration over the past two decades. Focusing on our own time, Kammen discusses the use of the fluid nature of cultural taste to enlarge audiences and increase revenues, and reveals how the public role of intellectuals and cultural critics has declined as the power of corporate sponsors and promoters has risen. As a result of this diminution of cultural authority, he says, definitive pronouncements have been replaced by divergent points of view, and there is, as well, a tendency to blur fact and fiction, reality and illusion. An important commentary on the often conflicting ways Americans have understood, defined, and talked about their changing culture in the twentieth century.