| Description |
x, 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index. |
| Contents |
Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and The Invention of Old America -- Spinsters, Widows, and a Minister: Amateur Photography in a Professional World -- Middle-Class Art, or, The Expansible Old America -- Picture Houses, Period Rooms, and Print: Wallace Nutting and the Place of History -- Pilgrim Furniture of the Modern Century -- Beauty, Construction, and Style: Old America on Madison Avenue -- Contemporary Ancestors: Berea College and the Past Progressive -- Waiting for the Auto to Pass: Wallace Nutting and the Persistence of Sentiment. |
| Summary |
"This illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting's life and work. Thomas Andrew Denenberg describes Nutting's interrelated endeavors, from his varied writings (including Furniture of the Pilgrim Century and the monumental three-volume Furniture Treasury) to his photography (both amateur and professional), chain of restored museum houses, renowned collection of seventeenth-century furniture, reproduction colonial furniture business, and advertising program. By charting Nutting's activities, Denenberg creates a picture of an influential cultural critic who deftly combined myth and materialism, contributing significantly to both the growth of consumerism and the development of an antimodern worldview in the twentieth-century United States."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.
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Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Furniture -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (OCoLC)fst00008071
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Furniture -- Collectors and collecting.
(OCoLC)fst00936492
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Photographers. (OCoLC)fst01061605
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Nutting, Wallace 1861-1941 (DE-588)124655890
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Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4
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Möbel (DE-588)4039860-2
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Fotografie (DE-588)4045895-7
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Bauhaus Dessau 1986-1994 Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen (DE-588)2122157-1
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University of South Alabama (DE-588)5241550-8
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1890-1941.
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1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0300096836 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780300096835 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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