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This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Innocents Abroad: The Founding Trustees, 1866–1880
2. General Cesnola and the Temple of Curium: Showmanship and Scholarship in the Age of Barnum, 1865–1895
3. Indentured Gratitude: The Havemeyers and Other Oligarchs, 1869–1913
4. Downtown: Artist-Artisans Between Commerce and Philanthropy, 1880–1914
5. The Guards: Ethnicity, Class, and Labor, 1880–1958
6. Colonial Flatware: Judge Clearwater and the Limits of Americanization, 1906–1933
7. The Ladies Lunch Club: Women and the Curatorial Profession, 1900–1940
8. The Modernists: The Museum and Modern Art, 1921–1950
9. Pupils on Parade: Museum Education as Theater, 1907–1973
10. Uptown: The Met and the “Total Black Community,” 1943–1977
11. Self-Culture for Out-of-Towners: From Miniatures to the Annenberg Center, 1948–1977
12. Changing Occupations: Mannequins at the Met, 1942–2004
13. Legacy Systems: From Multimedia to Digital, 1983–2019
Conclusion: 2020 Vision?
Abbreviations
Notes
Sources and Select Bibliography
Index
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Jonathan Conlin is professor of modern history at the University of Southampton. His books include Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London, and the Birth of the Modern City (2014) and Mr. Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man (2019).
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This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings.
