Cultural excursions : marketing appetites and cultural tastes in modern America Neil Harris

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Neil, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Arts--United States--Marketing.

Arts.

Physical Description:

viii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Contents:

Four stages of cultural growth : the American city

All the world a melting pot? : Japan at American fairs, 1876-1904

Museums, merchandising, and popular taste : the struggle for influence

A historical perspective on museum advocacy

Cultural institutions and American modernization

Great American fairs and American cities : the role of Chicago's Columbian Exposition

Museums : the hidden agenda

Utopian fiction and its discontents

The drama of consumer desire

John Philip Sousa and the culture of reassurance

Who owns our myths? : heroism and copyright in an age of mass culture

Collective possession : J. Pierpont Morgan and the American imagination

The changing landscape. Spaced out at the shopping center ; Living with lobbies ; Parking the garage

Iconography and intellectual history : the halftone effect

Color and media : some comparisons and speculations

Pictorial perils : the rise of American illustration

Designs on demand: art and the modern corporation.

Notes:

Selected essays written over a period of fifteen years.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-431) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0226317579

9780226317571

0226317587

9780226317588

OCLC:

20491867

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