The Met And The Masses In Postwar America
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The Met And The Masses In Postwar America
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Author : Mitchell Frank
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-11-17
The Met And The Masses In Postwar America written by Mitchell Frank and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with Art categories.
This book explores the collaborations, during the mid-20th century, between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Book-of-the-Month Club. Between 1948 and 1962 the two institutions collaborated on three book projects-The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures (1948-1957), The Metropolitan Seminars in Art (1958-60), and a print reproduction of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1962)-bringing art from the Met's collections right into the homes of subscribers. The Met and the Masses places these commercial enterprises in a variety of contemporary and historical contexts, including the relation of cultural education to democracy in America, the history of the Met as an educational institution, the rise of art education in postwar America, and the concurrent transformation of the home into a space that mediated familial privacy and the public sphere. Using never before published archival material, the book demonstrates how the Met sought to bring art to the masses in postwar America, whilst upholding its reputation as an institution of high culture. It is essential reading for scholars, researchers and curators interested in the history of modern art, museum and curatorial studies, arts and cultural management, heritage studies, as well as the history of art publications.
When History Meets The Mass Media
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Author : Brandon Wade Laird
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
When History Meets The Mass Media written by Brandon Wade Laird and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American literature categories.
Postwar America 1945 1971
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Author : Howard Zinn
language : en
Publisher: South End Press
Release Date : 2002
Postwar America 1945 1971 written by Howard Zinn and has been published by South End Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Howard Zinn's unique take on this vital period in U.S. history, with a new introduction. The postwar boom in the U.S. brought about massive changes in U.S. society and culture. In this accessible volume, historian Howard Zinn offers a view from below on these vital years in American history. By critically examining U.S. militarism abroad and racism at home, he raises challenging questions about this often romanticized era.
Postwar America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Postwar America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with National characteristics, American categories.
Examines the history, events and people during the postwar years following World War two.
Manhattan Projects
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Author : Samuel Zipp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-24
Manhattan Projects written by Samuel Zipp and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-24 with History categories.
Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in East Harlem--Zipp unearths a host of forgotten stories and characters that flesh out the conventional history of urban renewal. He shows how boosters hoped to make Manhattan the capital of modernity and a symbol of American power, but even as the builders executed their plans, a chorus of critics revealed the dark side of those Cold War visions, attacking urban renewal for perpetuating deindustrialization, racial segregation, and class division; for uprooting thousands, and for implanting a new, alienating cityscape. Cold War-era urban renewal was not merely a failed planning ideal, Zipp concludes, but also a crucial phase in the transformation of New York into both a world city and one mired in urban crisis.
A History Of Our Time
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Author : William Henry Chafe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1987
A History Of Our Time written by William Henry Chafe and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
The second edition of this widely-used anthology includes contemporary articles on the Cold War and the politics of the 1950s and 1960s as well as new discussions of the counterculture, conservatism under the Reagan administration, and the emergence of a new breed of poverty.
Popular Culture In The Age Of White Flight
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Author : Eric Avila
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-04
Popular Culture In The Age Of White Flight written by Eric Avila and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04 with Architecture categories.
"In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Perfectly Average
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Author : Anna G. Creadick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Perfectly Average written by Anna G. Creadick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Body image categories.
Made In U S A
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Author : Sidra Stich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Made In U S A written by Sidra Stich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Art categories.
Made in U.S.A. takes a new look at American art of the 1950s and 1960s and shows us how American it was. This is a provocative study of those artists who appropriated everyday images form the world of mass media and suburban living and forced their viewers into a sometimes witty, sometimes bittersweet, confrontation with the realities of living in late twentieth-century America.
The Holiday Makers
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Author : Richard K. Popp
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2012-05-16
The Holiday Makers written by Richard K. Popp and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-16 with Business & Economics categories.
In mid-twentieth-century America, mass tourism became emblematic of the expanding horizons associated with an affluent, industrial society. Nowhere was the image of leisurely travel more visible than in the parade of glossy articles and advertisements that beckoned readers from the pages of popular magazines. In Richard K. Popp's The Holiday Makers, the magazine industry serves as a window into postwar media and consumer society, showing how the dynamics of market research and commercial print culture helped shape ideas about place, mobility, and leisure. Magazine publishers saw travel content as a way to connect audiences to a booming ad sector, while middlebrow editors believed sightseeing travel was a means of fostering a classless society at home and harmony abroad. Expanding transportation networks and free time lay at the heart of this idealized vision. Holiday magazine heralded nothing less than the dawn of a new era, calling it "the age of Mobile Man -- Man gifted, for the first time in history, with leisure and the means to enjoy distance on a global scale." For their part, advertisers understood that selling tourism meant turning "dreams into action," as ad executive David Ogilvy put it. Doing so involved everything from countering ugly stereotypes to tapping into desires for "authentic" places and self-actualization. Though tourism was publicly touted in egalitarian terms, publishers and advertisers privately came to see it as an easy way to segment the elite free spenders from the penny-pinching masses. Just as importantly, marketers identified correlations between an interest in travel and other consumer behavior. Ultimately, Popp contends, the selling of tourism in postwar America played an early, integral role in the shift toward lifestyle marketing, an experiential service economy, and contributed to escalating levels of social inequality.