Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America

Language: English

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003

0300096836 / 9780300096835

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Cloth, x, 228 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. *** "This illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting's life and work. Thomas Andrew Denenberg describes Nutting's interrelated endeavors, from his varied writings (including Furniture of the Pilgrim Century and the monumental three-volume Furniture Treasury) to his photography (both amateur and professional), chain of restored museum houses, renowned collection of seventeenth-century furniture, reproduction colonial furniture business, and advertising program. By charting Nutting's activities, Denenberg creates a picture of an influential cultural critic who deftly combined myth and materialism, contributing significantly to both the growth of consumerism and the development of an antimodern worldview in the twentieth-century United States." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America; Chapter 2: Spinsters, Widows, and a Minister: Amateur Photography in a Professional World; Chapter 3: Middle-Class Art, or, The Expansible Old America; Chapter 4: Picture Houses, Period Rooms, and Print: Wallace Nutting and the Place of History; Chapter 5 Pilgrim Furniture of the Modern Century; Chapter 6 Beauty, Construction, and Style: Old America on Madison Avenue; Chapter 7: Contemporary Ancestors: Berea College and the Past Progressive; Chapter 8: Waiting for the Auto to Pass: Wallace Nutting and the Persistence of Sentiment; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. Size: 4to.…

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Title
Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America
Author
Denenberg, Thomas Andrew
Publisher
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Publication year
2003
Condition
NEW
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NEW
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0300096836
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9780300096835
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