Kenneth L Ames

Biographic Data

ID681290
NAMEKenneth L Ames
GIVEN NAMESKenneth L
FAMILY NAMEAmes
SIGNATUREAMES K L
AFFILIATIONSThe Graduate Center, CUNY
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS31
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX4

  • The Material Culture of Gender, the Gender of Material Culture

    Katharine Martinez, Kenneth L AmesARTICLEWoman s Art Journal2000

  • Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter

    Kenneth L AmesARTICLEJournal of Design History2000Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter Get access Daniel Miller (ed.). UCL Press , 1998 , xi + 243 pp. , 27 illus. £13 95 paper. ISBN 1 85728 557 3 . Kenneth L. Ames Kenneth L. Ames The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative ArtsNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/13.1.73 Publis…

  • The Material Culture of Gender, the Gender of Material Culture

    Shelley Armitage, Katharine Martinez et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 4

    Journal Article The Material Culture of Genden the Gender of Material Culture. Ed. by Katharine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames. Winterthur, Del.: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997. viii, 457 pp. $39.95 and The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography. Ed. by Miriam Formanek-Brunell. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. xiv, 154 pp. $24.95 Get access Shelley Armitage Shelley Armitage University of Texas El Paso, Texas Search for …

  • Academics on Display

    Kenneth L AmesARTICLEAfterimage1996

    Review| December 01 1996 Academics on Display Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums by Carol DuncanNew York: Routledge, 1995 178 pp./$16.95 (sb)Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles edited by Daniel J. Sherman and Irit RogoffMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994 301 pp./$19.95 (sb)Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances edited by Lynne Cooke and Peter WollenSeattle: Bay Press, 1995 351 pp./$16.95 (sb) Kenneth L. …

  • At Home with Material Culture

    Open AccessSusan Myers, Susan E Myers et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1994References: 1

    KENNETH AMES HAS BEEN A CENTRAL FIGURE IN MATERIAL CULTURE studies of decorative arts for almost two decades. Few have been as influential in advancing the study of American culture and society through the study of household furnishings. Death in the Dining Room is a welcome assemblage of essays that brings together new work and updated, previously published work. Scholars and collectors have explored the dimensions of material culture at least s…

  • Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits

    Eric Gable, Kenneth L Ames et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits. Ed. by Kenneth L. Ames, Barbara Franco, and L. Thomas Frye. (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1992. viii, 336 pp. Paper, $24.95 (nonmember), $22.45 (member), ISBN 0-942063-20-1.) Get access Eric Gable Eric Gable Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…

  • Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture

    Colleen Mcdannell, Kenneth L AmesARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture. By Kenneth L. Ames. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xiv, 265 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87722-891-4.) Get access Colleen McDannell Colleen McDannell University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 1110, https://doi.org/10.2307/208…

  • How Culture Shapes Consumption in the Modern World

    Open AccessKenneth L Ames, Grant MccrackenARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

  • The Transfer and Transformation of Ideas and Material Culture

    Kenneth L Ames, Peter J Hugill et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

  • American Design Ethic: A History of Industrial Design to 1940 . Arthur J. Pulos

    Kenneth L AmesARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1984

  • American Decorative Arts/Household Furnishings

    Open AccessKenneth L AmesARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1983

  • A Time to Mourn: Expressions of Grief in Nineteenth-Century America

    Kenneth L Ames, Martha V Pike et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1982

  • Ideologies In Stone: Meanings in Victorian Gravestones

    Open AccessKenneth L AmesARTICLEThe Journal of Popular Culture1981Cited by: 7

  • Material Culture as NonVerbal Communication: A Historical Case Study

    Open AccessKenneth L AmesARTICLEJournal of American Culture1980

  • New Muses: Art in American Culture, 1865-1920

    Kenneth L Ames, H Wayne MorganARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1980

  • Progress in Art

    Kenneth L Ames, Gail Johnson Ames et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1980

  • Beyond Necessity, Art in the Folk Tradition

    Simon J Bronner, Kenneth L AmesARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1980

  • Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition

    Open AccessJennie A Chinn, Kenneth L Ames et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1979Cited by: 2

  • Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America

    Kenneth L AmesARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1978Cited by: 10

    Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America Most people agree that Independence Hall, the statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge are important. Unique and heroic artifacts known to millions, they can be viewed as material culture counterparts of great individuals like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Edison. There is probably less agreement about the significance of Victorian hall stands, hall chairs, and card re…

  • Designed in France: Notes on the Transmission of French Style to America

    Kenneth L AmesARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1977

  • Grand Rapids Furniture at the Time of the Centennial

    Kenneth L AmesARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1975