Scribner's Monthly 1870-1881
Subtitle: Illustrating a New American Art World
By: Page Stevens Knox
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Description: 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.
Notes: Department: Art History and Archaeology.

Thesis advisor: Elizabeth West Hutchinson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2012.