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Consumed by the past: Wallace Nutting and the invention of Old America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Consumed by the past: Wallace Nutting and the invention of Old America./
Author:	Denenberg, Thomas Andrew.
Description:	389 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-04, Section: A, page: 1473.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-04A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3010445
ISBN:	0493201947

Consumed by the past: Wallace Nutting and the invention of Old America.
Denenberg, Thomas Andrew.

Consumed by the past: Wallace Nutting and the invention of Old America. - 389 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-04, Section: A, page: 1473.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2002.

The life of Wallace Nutting (1861–1941) provides a paradigm for the examination of middlebrow culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Nutting, a Harvard-educated Congregational minister turned photographer, writer, antiquarian, and entrepreneur employed the developing culture of consumption to sell an interconnected line of historically referential consumer goods from 1906 until 1941. From hand tinted platinum prints to reproduction colonial furniture, Nutting offered his customers images, objects, and texts that reinforced an idealized notion of American history in a period of great social change.

ISBN: 0493201947Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Consumed by the past: Wallace Nutting and the invention of Old America.
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520 $a The life of Wallace Nutting (1861–1941) provides a paradigm for the examination of middlebrow culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Nutting, a Harvard-educated Congregational minister turned photographer, writer, antiquarian, and entrepreneur employed the developing culture of consumption to sell an interconnected line of historically referential consumer goods from 1906 until 1941. From hand tinted platinum prints to reproduction colonial furniture, Nutting offered his customers images, objects, and texts that reinforced an idealized notion of American history in a period of great social change.
520 $a Chapter One introduces Nutting and investigates his early life, education, and first career as a minister in major cities throughout the United States. Particular attention is paid to his incipient neurasthenia and subsequent breakdown in 1904. The second chapter explores the ways in which Nutting turned his hobby into a Colonial Revival business empire. Taking up amateur photography to soothe his nerves in the waning years of the nineteenth century, the minister's hobby was a major business by the beginning of the First World War. Chapter Three examines the narratives within Nutting's photographic <italic>oeuvre </italic>. Looking closely at his largest photographic catalog, the so-called “Expansible” edition of 1915, reveals much about the minister's thinking about the role of the past in modern life.
520 $a Chapters Four, Five and Six demonstrate Nutting's penchant for crossover marketing and horizontal expansion. Desiring greater control over the interiors depicted in his photographs, Nutting purchased and restored five historic houses in three New England states. Furnishing the houses with period decorative arts, Nutting opened the buildings to the public as “The Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Picture Houses.” He proceeded to establish a reproduction furniture company in 1918, using the original seventeenth century objects as prototypes, and engaged the services of a Madison Avenue advertising agency to market this line to an expanding middle class. Chapter Seven chronicles Nutting's involvement with Berea College, a non-traditional school in Kentucky with an Arts and Crafts-based curriculum. Chapter Eight serves as a conclusion and plumbs Nutting's role in the construction of a sentimental culture for the Modern era.
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