Title: The tastemakers.
Authors: Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991
Publisher: Harper
Year: 1954
Subjects: Aesthetics.; Art United States.; United States Civilization; United States Social life and customs
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.