REGIONALISM AND REFORM
Subtitle: ART AND CLASS FORMATION IN ANTEBELLUM CI (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780814209066
Subjects: American - General; United States - State & Local - General; Duncanson, Robert S; Powers, Hiram; Spencer, Lilly Martin; History; Art & Art Instruction; 1821-1872; 1822-1902; 19th century; Art, American; Cincinnati; Criticism and interpretation; Duncanson, Robert S.,; Ohio; Spencer, Lilly Martin,; History: American
Description: "Before the Civil War, Cincinnati, Ohio, was considered the most important art center of what was then regarded as the U.S. West. In this book, Wendy Jean Katz explores the role of artists and art associations in moral and social reform in antebellum Cincinnati.

Its leaders claimed for it the status of the future geographic and economic center of the nation, and supported art as part of their effort to forge a regional vision of morals and manners attractive enough to persuade their adoption nationally."--BOOK JACKET.