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The era from 1890 to 1930 constituted a building boom for American art museums designed in a monumental, classical style; both the proliferation of the buildings and the ubiquity of the style seem to indicate an architectural as well as a sociocultural phenomenon. The present work is an attempt to place the American art museum building of this period into its historical milieu, and employs over one hundred illustrations and sociocultural analysis to explain the significance of both the instituti
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- Author
- Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce
- Publisher
- Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press ; London: Associated University Presses
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780838753514
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Architecture, History, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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