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Made
in Newark
Price: $49.95
Subtitle:
Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era
Author:
Ezra Shales
Subject: Regional,
Art History
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4769-5
Pages: 304 pages with 12
color and 65 black-and-white-photographs
Publication Date: May 2010
Rivergate
Books
Praise
for Made in Newark:
“Shales draws on an impressive array of sources to weave ideas about education, citizenship, economics, cultural pluralism, and the role of the museum in a manufacturing town. The result is an intensive and intriguing view of the past.”
—American Craft, March 2011
“Shales offers rich and
compelling insights into the discussion of industrial arts. His deft
handling of a wide variety of source material – from visual and
material culture to performance culture, from educational philosophy to
economic policy, and from craft romanticism to scientific management –
distinguishes this book as an important contribution to design history,
used in the broadest and best sense. It is a gripping
story of shifting alliances and goals.”
—Edward S. Cooke Jr., Yale
University
Description:
What does it mean to turn the public
library or museum into a civic forum? Made
in Newark describes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of
the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library’s outspoken
director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social
workers, educators, and New Women.
This is the story of experimental exhibitions in the library and the
founding of the Newark Museum Association—a project in which cultural
literacy was intertwined with civics and consumption. Local artisans
demonstrated crafts, connecting the cultural institution to the
department store, school, and factory, all of which invoked the ideal
of municipal patriotism. Today, as cultural institutions reappraise
their relevance, Made in Newark
explores precedents for contemporary debates over the ways the library
and museum engage communities, define heritage in a multicultural era,
and add value to the economy.
About the Author:
EZRA SHALES teaches at the New York State College
of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has worked as a museum educator at
the Brooklyn Museum and the Katonah Museum of Art.
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