Art for the middle classes
Subtitle: America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s
By: Cynthia Lee Patterson.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson [Miss.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781604737363; 9781604737370
Subjects: Magazine illustration -- United States -- 19th century; Art and the middle class -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Middle class -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Other titles: America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The Philadelphia pictorials and American visual culture in the 1840s; title: "From the burin of an American artist": artistic production in the 1830s and 1840s; title: "Superior embellishments" : innovations to the graphic arts in the Philadelphia pictorials; title: "A fluttering host of many-colored competitors" : regional imitators in the Northeast, West, and South; title: "Illustration of a picture" : American authors and the magazine embellishments; title: "Engravings from original pictures" : competing for audiences and original art; title: "A mezzotint in every number": battling for embellishers, battling over art; title: Conclusion. The ascendancy of New York, and market stratification.