Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old AmericaFor 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. |
Contents
Consumed by the Past | 1 |
Spinsters Widows and a Minister | 23 |
MiddleClass Art or The Expansible Old America | 45 |
Picture Houses Period Rooms and Print | 87 |
Pilgrim Furniture of the Modern Century | 123 |
Beauty Construction and Style | 153 |
Contemporary Ancestors | 171 |
Waiting for the Auto to Pass | 185 |
Notes | 195 |
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