Review Essay: Art Museums,Patronage,and the Transformation of Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Lawrence W. Levine , Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge: Harvard, 1988); Paul DiMaggio , “Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America,” and “Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art,” Media, Culture and Society, 4 (1982), 33-50, 303-322.

Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar , The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Ithaca: Cornell, 1992), pp. 357-366.

Rachel N. Klein , “ Culture Wars: Art, Authority, and the Transformation of Taste in Nineteenth Century New York,” book manuscript in progress.