Cultural Excursions

Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America

By: Neil Harris

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Paperback | 1 October 1990 | Edition Number 1

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Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures.

The essays fall into three general sections: the first treats the history of cultural institutions, highlighting the role of museums; the second section focuses on some literary, artistic, and entrepreneurial responses to the new mass culture; and the final group of essays explores the social history of art and architecture. Throughout Harris's diverse writings certain themes recur-the redefining of boundaries between high art and popular culture, the relationship between public taste and technological change, and the very notion of what constitutes a shared social experience. Harris's pioneering work has broadened the field of cultural history and encouraged whole new areas of inquiry. Cultural Excursions will be useful for those in American and culture studies, as well as for the general reader trying to make sense of the culture in which we live.

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Non-Fiction History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology History of Ideas

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Introduction
Four Stages of Cultural Growth: The American City
All the World a Melting Pot? Japan at American Fairs, 1876-1904
Museums, Mechandising, and Popular Taste: The Struggle for Influence
A Historical Perspective on Museum Advocacy
Cultural Institutions and American Modernization
Great American Fairs and American Cities: The Role of Chicago's Columbian Exposition
Museums: The Hidden Agenda
Utopian Fiction and Its Discontents
The Drama of Consumer Desire
John Philip Sousa and the Culture of Reassurance
Who Owns Our Myths? Heroism and Copyright in an Age of Mass Culture
Collective Possession: J. Pierpont Morgan and the American Imagination
The Changing Landscape Spaced Out at the Shopping Center Living with Lobbies Parking the Garage
Iconography and Intellectual History: The Halftone Effect
Color and Media: Some Comparisons and Speculations
Pictorial Perils: The Rise of American Illustration
Designs on Demand: Art and the Modern Corporation
Notes Illustration Credits
Index
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