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Picturing power : portraiture and its uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce

Title
Picturing power : portraiture and its uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce / Karl Kusserow ; with contributions by Elizabeth Blackmar, Paul Staiti, Daniel Bluestone, and David L. Barquist.
Author
Kusserow, Karl.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Blackmar, Elizabeth, 1950-
  • Staiti, Paul J.
  • Bluestone, Daniel M.
  • Barquist, David L.
Description
xv, 406 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
Subject
  • New York Chamber of Commerce > Art collections
  • Businessmen > New York (State) > New York > Portraits
  • Portrait painting, American > New York (State) > New York
  • Social status in art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Portraiture's use, and disuse, at the Chamber of Commerce and beyond / Karl Kusserow -- The capitalist portrait / Paul Staiti -- Exercising power: the New York Chamber of Commerce and the community of interest / Elizabeth Blackmar -- Portraits in the great hall: the Chamber's "voice" on Liberty Street / Daniel Bluestone -- "The whole lustre of gold": framing and displaying power at the Chamber of Commerce / David L. Barquist -- Memory, metaphor, and meaning in Daniel Huntington's Atlantic cable projectors / Karl Kusserow.
Call Number
JQF 14-329
ISBN
  • 9780231123587 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231123582 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012008530
OCLC
693812388
Author
Kusserow, Karl.
Title
Picturing power : portraiture and its uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce / Karl Kusserow ; with contributions by Elizabeth Blackmar, Paul Staiti, Daniel Bluestone, and David L. Barquist.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Blackmar, Elizabeth, 1950-
Staiti, Paul J.
Bluestone, Daniel M.
Barquist, David L.
Research Call Number
JQF 14-329
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