This Is Our Music

Iain Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• This Is Our Music , declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musi... Lees meer

Do Museums Still Need Objects?

Steven Conn

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• "We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are v... Lees meer

Art Work

April F Masten

• Hardcover | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• "I was in high spirits all through my unwise teens, considerably puffed up, after my drawings began to sell, with that pride of independence which was... Lees meer

Late Modernism

Robert Genter

• Hardcover | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebe... Lees meer

Haunted Visions

Charles Colbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In H... Lees meer

The Arts of Democracy

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• Influenced by two decades of debate inside and outside the academy about the relationship among the arts, politics, and public policy, the essays coll... Lees meer

Becoming Jane Jacobs

Peter L Laurence

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities , she ... Lees meer

The Modern Moves West

Richard Cándida Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The r... Lees meer

Improvised Continent

Richard Cándida Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continen... Lees meer

The Sociable City

Jamin Creed Rowan

• Hardcover | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its ... Lees meer

Things American

Jeffrey Trask

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the pa... Lees meer

Consuming Pleasures

Daniel Horowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize plea... Lees meer

For the Millions

A Joan Saab

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• Looking behind the scenes at the personalities and policies of such venerable institutions as the Federal Arts Project and the Museum of Modern Art, A... Lees meer