Dissertations:
Scribner's Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World
Page Stevens Knox
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- Title:
- Scribner's Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World
- Author(s):
- Knox, Page Stevens
- Thesis Advisor(s):
- Hutchinson, Elizabeth West
- Date:
- 2012
- Type:
- Dissertations
- Department:
- Art History and Archaeology
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:13056
- Notes:
- Ph.D., Columbia University.
- Abstract:
- This dissertation examines the illustrations and text of Scribner's Monthly, arguably the most prominent monthly magazine during the 1870s. Initiating improvements in reproduction technology and art criticism, Scribner's played a major role in the development of the nation's art world in the Gilded Age, transforming the reception, perception and consumption of images by the American public.
- Subject(s):
- Art history
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