Art in the Parlor: Consumer Culture and Currier and Ives

From: The Journal of American Culture | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Beau, Bryan F Le | Copyright information

The development of the modern American economy took a major leap forward in the midnineteenth century. The American economy moved dramatically in the direction of mass production and expanded product advertising, prompting the development of a modern consumer culture. Feeding those developments was a shift of production from the home to the factory, which was accompanied by greater emphasis on the home as sanctuary and source of moral and spiritual renewal. The domestic sphere became women's ...

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