Art, education, & African-American culture : Albert Barnes and the science of philanthropy / Mary Ann Meyers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meyers, Mary Ann
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:
Barnes, Albert C. > (Albert Coombs), > 1872-1951.
Art > Collectors and collecting > Pennsylvania > Biography.
Barnes, Albert C. > (Albert Coombs), > 1872-1951 > Knowledge and learning.
African American arts.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Local Note:
MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Paul and Barbara Trudgen Library Endowment.
Physical Description:xiii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Art, education, and African-American culture.
Albert Barnes and the science of philanthropy.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.