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Informationen zum Autor Wendy Katz is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The most recent of her books are Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press (Fordham University Press) and The Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle . Klappentext Mines the more than 300 newspapers published in New York City before the Civil War for art criticism, in order to trace the changing political positions of artists, artworks, and authors. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations | vii Introduction : The Penny Press | 1 1 The Aristocracy of Art and Bennett's Herald | 25 2 Artists, Their Agents, and Press Manipulation | 58 3 Old Masters versus Young America | 91 4 The Penny Press's Utopian Alternative | 124 5 The Genteel and the Bohemian | 156 6 Rearing Statues amid Gothic Spires | 188 Conclusion : Art and Politics | 227 Acknowledgments | 237 Notes | 239 Index | 291
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Wendy Katz is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The most recent of her books are
Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press (Fordham University Press) and
The Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle.
