High society
Subtitle: American portraits of the Gilded Age : Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, June 7-August 31, 2008
By: exhibition and catalogue, Barbara Dayer Gallati ; in collaboration with Ortrud Westheider ; with contributions by Barbara Dayer Gallati ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gallati, Barbara Dayer.; Westheider, Ortrud.; Bucerius Kunst Forum.
Series: Bucerius Kunst Forum publications; Publikationen des Bucerius Kunst Forums
Publisher: Hirmer; Merrell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9783777445458; 9781858944715
Subjects: Portrait painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Portrait painting, European -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Portrait painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Relief (Sculpture), American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; United States -- Biography -- Portraits -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions; Biography; Portraits
Other titles: American portraits of the Gilded Age
Notes: Also published in German with title: High society : amerikanische Portraits des Gilded Age.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-214).
Table of contents: title: Identity and aesthetics in American portraits of the gilded age / Barbara Dayer Gallati; title: One gilded age; title: and another / Eric Homberger; title: "This difficult and perplexing art form" : portraiture and women artists / Sylvia Yount; title: The "main field of American artists" : the reception of American portraits in Germany / Dorothee Hansen; title: James McNeill Whistler and the gilded age / Ortrud Westheider; title: Catalogue / Barbara Dayer Gallati; title: Portraiture and the gilded age; title: High society and patronage; title: Artists and professional identity; title: High society on public display; title: Business connections; title: Cosmopolitan lives; title: The Peter Marié collection of miniatures; title: New York in the gilded age / Susanne Scharf.