Books And Book Collecting In America 1890 1930
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Author | : Robert Alan Shaddy |
Publisher | : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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This study interprets the history of book collecting in America from the point of view of the collectors of the late 19th and early 20th century, the 'Golden Age' of collecting. It examines how, what, and most importantly why they collected, and how they read and interacted with their collectibles. It also incorporates an analysis with larger cultural occurrences related to the decline of Victorianism, modernization, the reaction by the American gentry, and rise of mass, consumer culture.
Author | : Robert Alan Shaddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
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Author | : Robert Alan Shaddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
ISBN | : 9780820427096 |
Author | : Robert Alan Shaddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
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Author | : Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach |
Publisher | : Boston : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Bibliomania |
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Author | : Jessica H. Foy |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1995-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780870499074 |
Between 1890 and 1930, the domestic arts, as well as the daily life of the American family, began to reflect rapid advances in technology, aesthetics, and attitudes about American culture. Pictorial, literary, musical, and decorative arts from this era all reveal a shift from clutter to clarity and from profusion to restraint as modern conveniences, ranging from pre-stamped needlework patterns to central heat, were introduced into the domestic environment. However, the household arts were also affected by an enduring strain of conservatism reflected in the popularity of historically inspired furnishing styles. In this collection of essays, ten experts in turn-of-the-century popular and material culture examine how the struggle between modernity and tradition was reflected in various facets of the household aesthetic. Their findings touch on sub-themes of gender, generation, and class to provide a fascinating commentary on what middle-class Americans were prepared to discard in the name of modernity and what they stubbornly retained for the sake of ideology. Through an examination of material culture and prescriptive literature from this period, the essayists also demonstrate how changes in artistic expression affected the psychological, social, and cultural lives of everyday Americans. This book joins a growing list of titles dedicated to analyzing and interpreting the cultural dimensions of past domestic life. Its essays shed new light on house history by tracking the transformation of a significant element of home life - its expressions of art.
Author | : Department of Information & Collections |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2005-12-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781402038181 |
The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description.
Author | : William Fitzhugh Brundage |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807834629 |
Author | : Jonathan Scott |
Publisher | : Diamond Publishing Group Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
ISBN | : 9780953260171 |
This book contains a complete list of children's works by over 200 collectable authors and illustrators, and provides help in identifying the collectable editions of all the works listed. It also includes a guide to the value of every first edition.
Author | : Stephen H. Grant |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-04-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1421411873 |
The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, D.C., for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. The library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault. He draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.