Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

ISBN-13: 9780190225032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 218 str.

Sarah Anne Carter

Opis

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things-objects and pictures-were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States.

Recenzje

Carter's book is accessible, evovative, and engaging...[it] contributes to the fields of American studies, American history, and the history and foundations of American education.

O autorze

Sarah Anne Carte is the curator and director of research at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. She has published, lectured, and taught courses on material culture, museum practice, and American cultural history. At Chipstone, Carter has collaboratively curated several exhibitions, including Mrs. M.——-'s Cabinet, and directs Chipstone's active museum Think Tank program.