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Author Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991.

Title The tastemakers.

Publication Info. [New York] : Harper [1954]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 L99    Check Shelf
Edition [First edition].
Description 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliography.
Contents Pt. 1. The public taste. Enter the lawyer's wife -- Every man a connoisseur -- Smiling lawns and tasteful cottages -- The art missionaries -- Art and fashion--cheap and popular -- Palaces for the people -- Packaged taste -- Pt. 2. The private taste. Stately homes -- Societies for truth and beauty -- The peacock on the newel post -- Suitability! -- Whirlwind on Twenty-sixth street -- Pt. 3. The corporate taste. Taste on wheels -- Suburbia in excelsis -- The art world -- Taste--tax deductible -- Highbrow, lowbrow, midbrow -- Exit the lawyer's wife.
Form Also issued online.
Subject United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
Aesthetics.
Art -- United States.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-1950.
Other Form: Online version: Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991. Tastemakers. [1st ed. New York] Harper [1954] (OCoLC)557761504
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