New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

Margaret R. Laster (Hrsg.), Chelsea Bruner (Hrsg.)

Taylor and Francis 

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunstgeschichte

Beschreibung

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New York s modernization and cosmopolitanism the product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the city s economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New York s late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the city s cultural ascendancy.

Kundenbewertungen