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Currents of change : art and life along the Mississippi River, 1850-1861 / Jason T. Busch, Christopher Monkhouse, Janet L. Whitmore.
- Title
- Currents of change : art and life along the Mississippi River, 1850-1861 / Jason T. Busch, Christopher Monkhouse, Janet L. Whitmore.
- Author
- Busch, Jason T.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minn. : The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N6530.M7 B87 2004 | Off-site | |
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- Description
- 189 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 32 cm.
- Summary
- "Celebrates the cultural and artistic history of the Mississippi River by bringing together art in all media: paintings, prints, drawings, furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles, and sculpture ... [In essays], Whitmore explores the Mississippi Valley landscape, people, and architecture in paintings ... Busch uses furnishings and portraits to trace patterns of patronage and decoration along the river. And Monkhouse examines the development of America's artistic identity through the Mississippi River imagery in Longfellow's popular narrative poems 'Evangeline' and 'The song of Hiawatha'"--Publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- Art and life along the Mississippi River, 1850-1861
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Art, American > Mississippi River Valley > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Art, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Decorative arts > United States > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Mississippi River Valley > In art
- Mississippi River Valley > Exhibitions
- Mississippi River Valley > Description and travel > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- History
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Catalog for an exhibition held at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 27-Sept. 26, 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Map of the Mississippi River Valley -- A panorama of unequaled yet ever-varying beauty / Janet L. Whitmore -- Handsomely furnished in the most fashionable style : art and decoration along the Mississippi River / Jason T. Busch -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the Mississippi River : forging a national identity through the arts / Christopher Monkhouse -- Exhibition checklist -- Selected bibliography -- Index of names -- Photograph credits.
- ISBN
- 0816644527 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- ^^2003116642
- OCLC
- 56586437
- SCSB-10246744
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library