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

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

by Mary Ann Meyers
Art, Education, and African-American Culture: Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy

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

by Mary Ann Meyers

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412805636
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Publication date: 01/03/2006
Pages: 482
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Early Years
2. Experiments in Education and Living
3. The Collector and His Tutors
4 Mr. Dewey
5. "The Temple" in Merion
6. The Art in Painting
7. The Art of Polemics
8. A New Valuation of Black Art
9. Muse, Models, Museum
10. The Dance
11. Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
12. Students and Teachers
13. Penn Again
14. The Last Alliance
15. Postmortem
16. Lincoln
17. Neighbors
18. Epilogue
Notes
Index

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