Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture
by
Justin T. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and architecturally stagnant provincial town into a booming and visually impressive metropolis. In an effort to remake Boston into the "Athens of America," neighborhoods were leveled,...