Art and the empire city
Subtitle: New York, 1825-1861
By: edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat.
Contributors: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover.; Howat, John K.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780870999574; 9780870999581; 9780300085181
Subjects: Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 19, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-617) and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing the metropolis : civilization and urbanity in antebellum New York / Dell Upton; title: Mapping the venues : New York City art exhibitions / Carrie Rebora Barratt; title: Private collectors and public spirit : a selective view / John K. Howat; title: Selling the sublime and the beautiful : New York landscape painting and tourism / Kevin J. Avery; title: Modeling a reputation : the American sculptor and New York City / Thayer Tolles; title: Building the empire city : architects and architecture / Morrison H. Heckscher; title: The currency of culture : prints in New York city / Elliot Bostwick Davis; title: "A palace for the sun" : early photography in New York City / Jeff L. Rosenheim; title: "Ahead of th world" : New York city fashion / Caroline Rennolds Milbank; title: The products of empire : shopping for home decorations in New York City / Amelia Peck; title: "Gorgeous articles of furniture" : cabinetmaking in the empire city / Catherine Hoover Voorsanger; title: Empire city entrepreneurs : ceramics and glass in New York City / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen; title: "Silver ware in great perfection" : the precious metals trades in New York City / Deborah Dependahl Waters.