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Humbug!: The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City''s Penny Press
ISBN: 9780823285402
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; American Studies ; Art & Art History ; Language & Literature;

Mines the more than 300 newspapers published in New York City before the Civil War for art criticism, in order to trace the changing political positions of artists, artworks, and authors.

Wendy Katz is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The most recent of her books are Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press (Fordham University Press) and The Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle .Wendy Jean Katz is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has explored distinctive regional networks for supporting art in The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-99: Art, Anthropology and Popular Culture at the Fin-de-Siècle and Regionalism & Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati .