Decorative cut glass and the working class in America, 1876 to 1916
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My project develops a social art history of a once-popular genre of decorative art called "cut glass, " domestic glassworks like bowls and vases incised with geometric patterns against stone and metal wheels. Specifically, I consider how the medium, its widely-discussed manufacture, and representations of each intervened in how working-class citizens created and negotiated their perceptions of themselves, their compatriots, and their nation. Scholarship on cut glass privileges the stories of upper- and middle-class consumers, but wage laborers—including those who made and maintained cut glass—encountered cut glass, its marketing, and their attendant class biases as well. Over five object-centered chapters, I show how public demonstrations of glass cutting, illustrations of domestics with cut glass, President McKinley's much-publicized punch set, and other artifacts reinforced and, often, unintentionally challenged prevailing conceptions of social class, privilege, and mobility. Given what one period journalist called "the rage for cut glass, " the medium offers a privileged site for apprehending the intersections of class, labor, and materiality in Gilded Age America, and their implications for working-class life and culture.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Larnerd, Joseph Harold | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Nemerov, Alexander | |
| Thesis advisor | Nemerov, Alexander | |
| Thesis advisor | Barry, Fabio | |
| Thesis advisor | Roberts, Jennifer L, 1969- | |
| Thesis advisor | Troy, Nancy J | |
| Degree committee member | Barry, Fabio | |
| Degree committee member | Roberts, Jennifer L, 1969- | |
| Degree committee member | Troy, Nancy J | |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Joseph Harold Larnerd. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Joseph Harold Larnerd
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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