For devotees of American decorative arts, Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) needs little introduction. A Congregational minister turned author, photographer and wildly successful entrepreneur, Nutting was the principal authority on early American furniture for much of the 20th century and played an important role in the development of a colonial-revival aesthetic and ideology. He collected, reproduced and marketed colonial artefacts, and the goods and experiences he offered his middle-class customers promoted his idealised notion ...
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For devotees of American decorative arts, Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) needs little introduction. A Congregational minister turned author, photographer and wildly successful entrepreneur, Nutting was the principal authority on early American furniture for much of the 20th century and played an important role in the development of a colonial-revival aesthetic and ideology. He collected, reproduced and marketed colonial artefacts, and the goods and experiences he offered his middle-class customers promoted his idealised notion of a time and place that he called Old America.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art. With B&W & colour illustrations. Slight wear at corners of front board & dust jacket, otherwise a clean, bright copy in firm binding.
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Fair. Little wear and scuff marks to jacket, pages in very nice condition, shipped from the UK. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 228 p. Contains: Illustrations.
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Fine in Fine jacket. U.S.A. : Yale University Press, 2003. First edition, first printing, 2003, with personalized inscription signed by the author on the front free endpapr. Light brown cloth with illustrated dustjacket. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, no other names or markings, dustjacket in mylar protector. Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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VG (Few marks from previous art-gallery owner. ) Brown cloth w/ color pictorial DJ, xi, 228 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw and color. For devotees of American decorative arts, Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) needs little introduction. A Congregational minister turned author, photographer, and wildly successful entrepreneur, Nutting was the principal authority on early American furniture for much of the twentieth century and played an important role in the development of a colonial revival aesthetic and ideology. He collected, reproduced, and marketed colonial artifacts, and the goods and experiences he offered his middle-class customers promoted his idealized notion of a time and place that he called "Old America." This handsomely 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.
