DONOR Note: Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Penny Press -- 1 The Aristocracy of Art and Bennett's Herald -- 2 Artists, Their Agents, and Press Manipulation -- 3 Old Masters versus Young America -- 4 The Penny Press's Utopian Alternative -- 5 The Genteel and the Bohemian -- 6 Rearing Statues amid Gothic Spires -- Conclusion: Art and Politics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher
