Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920

Bronner, Simon J. (editor)

ISBN 10: 0393027090 / ISBN 13: 9780393027099

Edité par W. W. Norton & Co., for The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, New York, 1989

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Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & illus. dust jacket in mylar cover, 391 pp., BW illus. A collection of 12 essays that examine "the consumer way of life in America as it unfolded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by exploring the visions that guided this spreading way of life and the figures, evetns, and institutions that projected these visions." (dj) Essays: Reading consumer culture / Simon J. Bronner -- The Victorian jeremiad : critics of accumulation and display / Michael Barton -- Beyond Veblen : rethinking consumer culture in America / Jackson Lears -- Strategists of display and the production of desire / William Leach -- A house of fiction : domestic interiors and the commodity aesthetic / Jean-Christophe Agnew -- From parlor to living room : domestic space, interior decoration, and the culture of personality / Karen Halttunen -- The culture of imperial abundance : world's fairs in the making of American culture / Robert W. Rydell -- Object lessons : the work of ethnological museums and collections / Simon J. Bronner -- The collecting self and American youth movements / Jay Mechling -- The evolution of public space in New York City : the commercial showcase of America / William R. Taylor -- Life, literature, and sociology in turn-of-the-century Chicago / Eugene Rochberg-Halton -- Country stores, county fairs, and mail-order catalogues : consumption in rural America / Thomas J. Schlereth.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920
• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Co., for The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, New York
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0393027090
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780393027099
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Well-illustrated
• État de l'article: VG
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • American Art
  • General Art - American

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Synopsis

How did the consumer system develop to pervade the whole of American culture? The rise of American mass culture helped to spread consumerism, turning the country into a nation of consumers. This volume examines the consumer way of life in America as it unfolded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It traces how Americans came to value the pursuit of status objects and to rely on accumulating goods to measure cultural identity. Art, literature, advertisements, amusements, furnishings, fairs, hotels, museums, schools and shops tell a story of cultural change and the figures, events and institutions that projected new visions of what was desirable.