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Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, & John K. Howat, "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861"

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Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, & John K. Howat, "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861"

Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, & John K. Howat, "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861"
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale Un Pr | 1981 | ISBN: 0300085184/0870999575 | English | PDF | 652 pages | 81.62 Mb

In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and change for the city of New York. Still very much a work in progress, New York became both an international economic and cultural center: it was transformed into what contemporary observers variously termed the Empire City, the Great Emporium, and the Empress City of the West.

The cultural component of this transformation was as significant as its economic aspect. Highly skilled artists and craftsmen working in New York, both native born and immigrant, grew in number, and institutions devoted to the arts emerged and flourished. With Broadway at its heart, the Great Emporium developed into the nation's major manufacturing and retailing center, the depot for luxury goods made in and around the city and imported from Europe.

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 is the focus of this book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects. Their texts 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. This volume is lavishly 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.
Awards:
• American Association of Museums Award for Museum Publications Design, Honorable Mention (2001)
• New York Public Library "Book to Remember" (2000)
Sponsor's Statement
Terrence Murray, FleetBoston Financial

Director's Foreword
Philippe de Montebello

Lenders to the Exhibition

Preface and Acknowledgments
John K. Howat, Catherine Hoover Voorsanger

Contributors to the Catalogue

Note to the Reader

Essays

Inventing the Metropolis: Civilization and Urbanity in Antebellum New York
Dell Upton

Mapping the Venues: New York City Art Exhibitions
Carrie Rebora Barratt

Appendix A: Exhibition Venues
Appendix B: Exhibitions and Auctions

Private Collectors and Public Spirit: A Selective View
John K. Howat

Selling the Sublime and the Beautiful: New York Landscape Painting and Tourism
Kevin J. Avery

Modeling a Reputation: The American Sculptor and New York City
Thayer Tolles

Building the Empire City: Architects and Architecture
Morrison H. Heckscher

The Currency of Culture: Prints in New York City
Elliot Bostwick Davis

"A Palace for the Sun": Early Photography in New York City
Jeff L. Rosenheim

"Ahead of the World": New York City Fashion
Caroline Rennolds Milbank

The Products of Empire: Shopping for Home Decorations in New York City
Amelia Peck

"Gorgeous Articles of Furniture": Cabinetmaking in the Empire City
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger

Empire City Entrepreneurs: Ceramics and Glass in New York City
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

"Silver Ware in Great Perfection": The Precious-Metals Trades in New York City
Deborah Dependahl Waters

Works in the Exhibition
Checklist of the Exhibition
Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits


Catherine Hoover Voorsanger is Associate Curator, Department of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Project Director, Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861.

John K. Howat is Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman, Departments of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Choice Reviews Online
"The authors of the introductory essays present a comprehensive, ambitious, and exhaustive discussion of all the arts … It will serve as a primary resource for … all scholars of American art and culture."
Times Literary Supplement
"… splendid …"


Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, & John K. Howat, "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861"