Wallace Nutting and the invention of old America
By: Thomas Andrew Denenberg.
Publisher: Yale University Press in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Nutting, Wallace, -- 1861-1941; Photographers -- United States -- Biography; Furniture -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Description: "This illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting's life and work. Thomas Andrew Denenberg describes Nutting's interrelated endeavors, from his varied writings (including Furniture of the Pilgrim Century and the monumental three-volume Furniture Treasury) to his photography (both amateur and professional), chain of restored museum houses, renowned collection of seventeenth-century furniture, reproduction colonial furniture business, and advertising program.

By charting Nutting's activities, Denenberg creates a picture of an influential cultural critic who deftly combined myth and materialism, contributing significantly to both the growth of consumerism and the development of an antimodern worldview in the twentieth-century United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-222) and index.