Humbug!

Jean Katz Wendy

Description

One of Hyperallergic's Top Ten Art Books for 2021Approximately 300 daily and weekly newspapers flourished in New York before the Civil War. A majority of these newspapers, even those that proclaimed independence of party, were motivated by political conviction and often local conflicts. Their editors and writers jockeyed for government office and influence. Political infighting and their related maneuvers dominated the popular press, and these political and economic agendas led in turn to exploitation of art and art exhibitions. Humbug traces the relationships, class animosities, gender biases, and racial projections that drove the terms of art criticism, from the emergence of the penny press to the Civil War.The inexpensive "penny" papers that appeared in the 1830s relied on advertising to survive. Sensational stories, satire, and breaking news were the key to selling papers on the streets. Coverage of local politicians, markets, crime, and personalities, including artists and art exhibitions, became the penny papers' lifeblood. These cheap papers, though unquestionably part of the period's expanding capitalist economy, offered socialists, working-class men, bohemians, and utopianists a forum in which they could propose new models for American art and society and tear down existing ones.Arguing that the politics of the antebellum press affected the meaning of American art in ways that have gone unrecognized, Humbug covers the changing politics and rhetoric of this criticism. Author Wendy Katz demonstrates how the penny press's drive for a more egalitarian society affected the taste and values that shaped art, and how the politics of their art criticism changed under pressure from nativists, abolitionists, and expansionists. Chapters explore James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald and its attack on aristocratic monopolies on art; the penny press's attack on the American Art-Union, an influential corporation whose Board purchased artworks from living artists, exhibited them in a free gallery, and then distributed them in an annual five-dollar lottery; exposs of the fraudulent trade in Old Masters works; and the efforts of socialists, freethinkers, and bohemians to reject the authority of the past.

Sujets

• Histoire
• News
• History of art
• Local history
• History of the Americas
• Reportage
• Media

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 04 février 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823285402
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 129 Mo

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Humbug!

HUMBUG!

The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City’s Penny Press

wé Jéà Kàz

AN IMPRINT OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 2020

Cô © 2020 Fôà Uéŝ éŝŝ

A ŝ éŝéé. Nô à ô ŝ ûçàô à é éôûçé, ŝôé  à ééà ŝŝé, ô àŝé  à ô ô  à éàŝ—ééçôç, éçàçà, ôôçô, éçô, ô à ôé—éxçé ô é qûôàôŝ  é ééŝ, ôû é ô éŝŝô ô é ûŝé.

Fôà Uéŝ éŝŝ àŝ ô éŝôŝ ô é éŝŝéçé ô àççûàç ô URŝ ô éxéà ô -à îéé éŝéŝ ééé ô  ŝ ûçàô à ôéŝ ô ûààéé à à çôé ô ŝûç éŝéŝ ŝ, ô  éà, àççûàé ô àôàé.

Fôà Uéŝ éŝŝ àŝô ûŝéŝ ŝ ôôŝ  à àé ô ééçôç ôàŝ. Śôé çôé à àéàŝ   à ô é àààé  ééçôç ôôŝ.

Vŝ ûŝ ôé à .ôàéŝŝ.çô/éé-ŝàé-éôŝ.

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é  é Ué Śàéŝ ô Aéçà

22 21 20

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5 4 3 2 1

 ŝ ô îûŝàôŝ 

CONTENTS

 îôûçô: é é éŝŝ 1

1 é Aŝôçàç ô A à Béé’ŝHerad 25

2 Aŝŝ, é Aéŝ, à éŝŝ àûàô 58

3 Ô àŝéŝ éŝûŝ Yôû Aéçà 91

4 é é éŝŝ’ŝ Uôà Aéàé 124

5 é Gééé à é Bôéà 156

6 Réà Śàûéŝ à Gôç Śéŝ 188

 Côçûŝô: A à ôçŝ 227

 Açôééŝ 237

 Nôéŝ 239

 îéx 291

ILLUSTRATIONS

 î.1Sun, Féûà 17, 1834

 î.2Mornîng Courîer and New York Enquîrer, A 24, 1854

 î.3Herad, Ôçôé 19, 1837

 î.4 Jô Bééçé, “éé ô é ôçôôçôŝ  é à,” Sunday Mornîng News, A 8, 1838

 î.5 wàé Ôé,Vîew across the Catskîs, 1838

 î.6 Jàéŝ Càé,Newsboy Seîng theNé-Yô Héà, 1857

 1.1 Aé Hô, “R. . Rôŝô, é îôçé Bô,” 1836

 1.2 Jô Vàé,The Death of Jane McCrea, 1804

 1.3 Hé îà,Portraît of John Inman, ç. 1828

 1.4 “Gà Fàç Déŝŝ Bà,”Herad, àç 2, 1840

 1.5 “Bà Bà Côŝûé,”Herad, àç 5, 1840

 1.6 “Ôé ô é Nàôà Açàé,”Herad, A 27, 1840

 1.7 wà àé,Portraît of Coone Wîîam Leete Stone, 1839

 1.8 Hé îà,Newsboy, 1841

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Jéŝŝé àô,Chrîstîan at the Cross, 1847

Aé Jôéŝ, àé  à Śéçé,One of Lîfe’s Happy Hours, ç. 1854

ôàŝ wé,Passaîc Fas, Sprîng, ç. 1839

“Né Yô Gàé ô Fé Aŝ,”Herad, Déçéé 15, 1844

 3.2

 2.1

 2.6

wà àé,Young Traders, 1842

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wà àé,Cupîd and Psyche, 1843

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Càéŝ Bû, àé Dàé Hûô,The Sîgnîng of the Death Warrant of Lady Jane Grey, 1848

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“Yôû Aéçà Cééà é Nàôà Aéŝà,”Herad, Jû 6, 1847

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ôŝ àéŝô,The Spîrît of ’76,Coumbîan Magazîne, A 1846

Jéŝŝé àô,Happy Vaey, from Rasseas, the Prînce Medîtatîng Hîs Escape, 1841 116

“Dç Dôŝ, A ÔIçé Béà,”Herad, Déçéé 29, 1840; “é ôàé éà ô Né Yô,”Herad, Déçéé 8, 1844

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Jàéŝ çDôûà, “Jàéŝ Vàç Śôû,”Sunday Mercury, Déçéé 1842

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 3.1

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Hé îà,The Chîdren of Bîshop George Washîngton Doane, 1835

Hé Bô,Choosîng of the Arrow, 1849

wà ôû,Bîshop Benjamîn T. Onderdonk, ç. 1830–1833

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 4.5

Hé Gà,The Wages of War, 1848

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J. J. Bûé, “é Néŝàé Bôŝ,”New Word, Jàûà 1, 1841

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 2.2

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Cô ôThe Assumptîon of the Vîrgîn, àé Fàçéŝçô Aà, ç. 1775–1825

Jàéŝ Śôû,Sketch of Fanny Esser, ç. 1841

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 4.2

 4.1

 1.9

Hé Bô,George Washîngton, 1856

Dà ’Aéŝ,Thomas Jefferson, 1834;Democratîc Revîew, Jàûà 1846

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“éGreek Save Hà ôéŝ,”Iustrated News, Śééé 17, 1853; “Aŝç Féé,”Pîcayune, Jû 4, 1857

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Kà éŝŝ,The Martyrdom of Hus, 1850; Cŝà Kôé, Awakenîng of Germanîa în 1848, 1849

Jô çéà, “Śçéé  à àé Hôûŝé,” “àé-Śçéé,” Yankee Notîons, Jûé à Aûûŝ 1853

“wé Vŝ é Açàé ô Déŝ,”Vanîty Faîr, A 28, 1860

 Śéçé,Young Husband, 1854

“é Côô,”Dîspatch, Déçéé 24, 1848; “é wàŝéôé,” Dîspatch161, Aûûŝ 27, 1848

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ôàŝ wé,Vîew of New York Cîty from Hoboken, New Jersey, 1865

“Nàôà Açàé,”Pîcayune, Jûé 20, 1857

Engravîng of the Washîngton Monument, after Wacutt’s Desîgn, by Wîîam N. Dunne,1848 205

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Hé îà, “A Vàéé,”Sunday Mercury, Féûà 20, 1842

Cà ŝ,Andrew Jackson, 1853; “Éqûéŝà Śàûé ô Jàçŝô,”Iustrated News, Jàûà 15, 1853

“Côéŝôéçé ô Và Fà,”Vanîty Faîr, Śééé 1, 1860

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Dîspatch, Jàûà 23, 1848

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 Śéçé,Joy Washerwoman, 1851;  Śéçé,Shake Hands?,Cosmopoîtan Art Journa,Śééé 1857

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wà wàçû,Puîng Down the Statue of Kîng George III at Bowîng Green,1857

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é Gàéé,Guîot, ..

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Pîcayune, Déçéé 27, 1851

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