LECTURES & LITERATURE

    Art-at-Lunch: A New Nation of Goods

    Art-at-Lunch: A New Nation of Goods

    Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

    December 8, 2010


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    Join PAFA staff and students for this series of talks on American art and culture every Wednesday at noon. Enjoy discussions and lectures with scholars and artists covering a variety of topics related to PAFA's exhibitions, collections and areas of interest. Visitors are encouraged to bring a bagged lunch, though limited options will be available for sale outside the Auditorium doors. In the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption. A New Nation of Goods, recently published by David Jaffee of the Bard Graduate Center, highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to illustrate the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities and culture.


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        Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

        118 & 128 N. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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        Free

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        December 8, 2010

        Times:

        Noon-1 pm

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