Art, Education, and African-American Culture Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy

Name: Art, Education, and African-American Culture Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy
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ISBN: 9781412805636

ISBN-10: 1412805635

ISBN-13: 9781412805636

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mary Ann Meyers

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A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation, Which houses his treasures, is a fabled repository of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early modem paintings. Less well known is the fact that Barnes attributed his passion for collecting art to his youthful experience of African-American culture, especially music. "Art, Education, and African-American Culture is both a biography of an iconoclastic and innovative figure and a study of the often-conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African American…

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List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 482
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Mary Ann Meyers is secretary and director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and senior fellow at the John Templeton Foundation. Her books include Art, Education and African-American Culture: Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy and A New World Jerusalem: The Swedenborgian Experience in Community Construction .



Introduction to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Early Years



Experiments in Education and Living



The Collector and His Tutors



Mr. Dewey



"The Temple" in Merion



The Art in Painting



The Art of Polemics



A New Valuation of Black Art



Muse, Models, Museum



The Dance



Varieties of Aesthetic Experience



Students and Teachers



Penn Again



The Last Alliance



Postmortem



Lincoln



Neighbors



Epilogue


Notes


Index