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Item Number: 126812
Title: Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California : Cultural Philanthropy, Induatrial Capital and Social Authority
Author: Ott, John
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409463344
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 330pp., 73 b&w, 4 color illus. Contents : Introduction; Section I Towards a Topography of Art Patronage and Class Identity: The manufactured patron: competing conceptions of cultural philanthropy; Sacred precincts: staging class identity through art consumption. Section II Industrialism, Science, and Managerial Over-Sight: Iron horses: Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge, and the industrialized eye; Supervision: landscapes of systems and management in the gilded age. Section III Industrialism and the Production of Regional History: White gold: Edwin Crocker and Charles Nahl’s Sunday Morning in the Mines; Missionary work: Jane Stanford, educational philanthropy, and the mission revival; Conclusion: the man with the dough, or Westward Hoe!; Bibliography; Index. (The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950)
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