Visual Culture: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Civil War to World War II (original) (raw)

print culture thar pernleated rniddle-ciass American life in tlie Northeast and, gradua11r,, culture generally from coast to coast. Old Master and academic arr established the iconography and ways of seeing that saturated this visual landscape, composed of perrnanent and traveiling exhibitions of fine :rrt; popular prints and r-eproductions in mainstreanr periodicals; illustrated Bibles and volumes on the Life of Christ, the Madonna, ancl tl're saints; stereo photographs and domestic alrlusenlents; ancl rrryriad fonns of commercial enteftainnlent.