Paintings and Graphic Images of Industry in Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: a Study of the Relationship Between Art and Industry. (Volumes I and II)

Ann Arbor: UMI, 1991. Softcover. VG, clean and tight but with gallery owner's ex-lib. sticker on lower spine.. Navy card wraps with black lettering on white title block. 528 pp. with 154 bw images. Dissertation for PhD at University of Pittsburgh. Considers the impact of industrialism on art in the 19th century by examining commercial and artistic images relating to Pittsburgh industry between 1815 and 1900. Discusses how economic, social and aesthetic forces determined what was depicted and what was left out of paintings and prints of industry. Deals with the wider issues of art in an industrial society, of culture and capitalism and of the social production of art. (from the abstract).