The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
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Becoming Jane Jacobs
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224429
Pub Date: February 2019
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and...
Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812221558
Pub Date: December 2010
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now...
Things American
Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812222852
Pub Date: October 2013
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the parochial worldview of their founders limited their...
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812220032
Pub Date: June 2007
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs...
The Sociable City
An American Intellectual Tradition
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812249293
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without...
Consuming Pleasures
Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812243956
Pub Date: April 2012
Format: Hardcover
504 Pages
How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the...
The Modern Moves West
California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century
Price: $32.00
ISBN: 9780812222210
Pub Date: December 2012
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts...
Late Modernism
Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812242645
Pub Date: October 2010
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism—Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky—and...
Improvised Continent
Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780812249422
Pub Date: September 2017
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard Cándida Smith answers this question...
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812243253
Pub Date: June 2011
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles...

Becoming Jane Jacobs
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224429
Pub Date: February 2019
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812221558
Pub Date: December 2010
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Things American
Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812222852
Pub Date: October 2013
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812220032
Pub Date: June 2007
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
The Sociable City
An American Intellectual Tradition
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812249293
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Consuming Pleasures
Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812243956
Pub Date: April 2012
Format: Hardcover
504 Pages
The Modern Moves West
California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century
Price: $32.00
ISBN: 9780812222210
Pub Date: December 2012
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Late Modernism
Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812242645
Pub Date: October 2010
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Improvised Continent
Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780812249422
Pub Date: September 2017
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812243253
Pub Date: June 2011
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages