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Denenberg, Thomas Andrew, 1967-

Wallace Nutting and the invention of old America / Thomas Andrew Denenberg.

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003.

x, 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

"This illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting's life and work. Thomas Andrew Denenberg describes Nutting's interrelated endeavors, from his varied writings (including Furniture of the Pilgrim Century and the monumental three-volume Furniture Treasury) to his photography (both amateur and professional), chain of restored museum houses, renowned collection of seventeenth-century furniture, reproduction colonial furniture business, and advertising program. By charting Nutting's activities, Denenberg creates a picture of an influential cultural critic who deftly combined myth and materialism, contributing significantly to both the growth of consumerism and the development of an antimodern worldview in the twentieth-century United States."--Jacket.

Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

Photographers -- United States -- Biography.

Furniture -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.

Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and The Invention of Old America -- Spinsters, Widows, and a Minister: Amateur Photography in a Professional World -- Middle-Class Art, or, The Expansible Old America -- Picture Houses, Period Rooms, and Print: Wallace Nutting and the Place of History -- Pilgrim Furniture of the Modern Century -- Beauty, Construction, and Style: Old America on Madison Avenue -- Contemporary Ancestors: Berea College and the Past Progressive -- Waiting for the Auto to Pass: Wallace Nutting and the Persistence of Sentiment.

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