{"product_id":"humbug-the-politics-of-art-criticism-in-new-york-citys-penny-press-hardback-9780823285372","title":"Humbug!; The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press (Hardback) 9780823285372","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHumbug!\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWendy Jean Katz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823285372\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 68\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.656 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e's Top Ten Art Books for 2021\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Approximately 300 daily and weekly newspapers flourished in New York before the Civil War. A majority of these newspapers, even those that proclaimed independence of party, were motivated by political conviction and often local conflicts. Their editors and writers jockeyed for government office and influence. Political infighting and their related maneuvers dominated the popular press, and these political and economic agendas led in turn to exploitation of art and art exhibitions. \u003ci\u003eHumbug \u003c\/i\u003etraces the relationships, class animosities, gender biases, and racial projections that drove the terms of art criticism, from the emergence of the penny press to the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e The inexpensive \"penny\" papers that appeared in the 1830s relied on advertising to survive. Sensational stories, satire, and breaking news were the key to selling papers on the streets. Coverage of local politicians, markets, crime, and personalities, including artists and art exhibitions, became the penny papers' lifeblood. These cheap papers, though unquestionably part of the period's expanding capitalist economy, offered socialists, working-class men, bohemians, and utopianists a forum in which they could propose new models for American art and society and tear down existing ones.\u003cbr\u003e Arguing that the politics of the antebellum press affected the meaning of American art in ways that have gone unrecognized, \u003ci\u003eHumbug \u003c\/i\u003ecovers the changing politics and rhetoric of this criticism. Author Wendy Katz demonstrates how the penny press's drive for a more egalitarian society affected the taste and values that shaped art, and how the politics of their art criticism changed under pressure from nativists, abolitionists, and expansionists. Chapters explore James Gordon Bennett's\u003ci\u003e New York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerald \u003c\/i\u003eand its attack on aristocratic monopolies on art; the penny press's attack on the American Art-Union, an influential corporation whose Board purchased artworks from living artists, exhibited them in a free gallery, and then distributed them in an annual five-dollar lottery; exposés of the fraudulent trade in Old Masters works; and the efforts of socialists, freethinkers, and bohemians to reject the authority of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e   vii \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Penny Press   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Aristocracy of Art and Bennett's \u003ci\u003eHerald\u003c\/i\u003e   25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Artists, Their Agents, and Press Manipulation   58\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eOld Masters versus Young America   91\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Penny Press's Utopian Alternative   124\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e The Genteel and the Bohemian   156\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003eRearing Statues amid Gothic Spires   188\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: Art and Politics   227\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   237\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   239 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   291\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Empire State Editions","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580355473688,"sku":"9780823285372","price":90.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/humbug-the-politics-of-art-criticism-in-new-york-citys-penny-press-hardback-9780823285372","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}