Art Wars
The Politics of Taste in Nineteenth-Century New York
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154796 |
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| Authors | Jennifer M Black (Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 589-590 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaab257 |
| OpenAlex | W4226069013 |
| Language | EN |
With Art Wars, Rachel N. Klein illuminates the legacy of the “republic of taste” championed by elites and members of the middle class in the earliest decades of the nineteenth century (p. 9). Weaving together institutional analyses with biography and intellectual history, Klein examines the complex interplay between cultural taste makers in the art world and the publics they sought to uplift and educate. As such, Klein promises to expand our understandings of the classed origins of cultural institutions as examined by Lawrence W. Levine (Highbrow/Lowbrow, 1988), while linking together the discussions of nationalism and taste offered by Catherine E. Kelly (Republic of Taste, 2016) and Jeffrey Trask (Things American, 2011). In six chapters, Klein traces public controversies encountered by the American Art Union and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to show how aesthetic ideologies and reformist goals intertwined with class politics and racial
Aesthetics · Art · Art criticism · Art history · Biography · Highbrow · Ideology · Literature · Nationalism · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Taste · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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