Background
Harris, Neil was born in 1938 in Brooklyn, AMERICA0. Son of Harold and Irene Harris.
(Explores the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicago...)
Explores the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicagoans during the 1920s and '30s. This book reproduces various elements of the "Chicagoan": its covers, cartoons, editorials, reviews, and features.
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( What was the place of the artist in a new society? How ...)
What was the place of the artist in a new society? How would he thrive where monarchy, aristocracy, and an established church—those traditional patrons of painting, sculpture, and architecture—were repudiated so vigorously? Neil Harris examines the relationships between American cultural values and American society during the formative years of American art and explores how conceptions of the artist's social role changed during those years.
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( This carefully researched study of America's greatest s...)
This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly entertaining presentation of the outrageous man and his exploits.
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( Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years...)
Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures. The essays fall into three general sections: the first treats the history of cultural institutions, highlighting the role of museums; the second section focuses on some literary, artistic, and entrepreneurial responses to the new mass culture; and the final group of essays explores the social history of art and architecture. Throughout Harris's diverse writings certain themes recur—the redefining of boundaries between high art and popular culture, the relationship between public taste and technological change, and the very notion of what constitutes a shared social experience. Harris's pioneering work has broadened the field of cultural history and encouraged whole new areas of inquiry. Cultural Excursions will be useful for those in American and culture studies, as well as for the general reader trying to make sense of the culture in which we live.
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( While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at ...)
While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago some years ago, noted historian Neil Harris made a surprising discovery: a group of nine plainly bound volumes whose unassuming spines bore the name the Chicagoan. Pulling one down and leafing through its pages, Harris was startled to find it brimming with striking covers, fanciful art, witty cartoons, profiles of local personalities, and a whole range of incisive articles. He quickly realized that he had stumbled upon a Chicago counterpart to the New Yorker that mysteriously had slipped through the cracks of history and memory. Here Harris brings this lost magazine of the Jazz Age back to life. In its own words, the Chicagoan claimed to represent “a cultural, civilized, and vibrant” city “which needs make no obeisance to Park Avenue, Mayfair, or the Champs Elysees.” Urbane in aspiration and first published just sixteen months after the 1925 appearance of the New Yorker, it sought passionately to redeem the Windy City’s unhappy reputation for organized crime, political mayhem, and industrial squalor by demonstrating the presence of style and sophistication in the Midwest. Harris’s substantial introductory essay here sets the stage, exploring the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicagoans during the 1920s and 30s. The author then lets the Chicagoan speak for itself in lavish full-color segments that reproduce its many elements: from covers, cartoons, and editorials to reviews, features—and even one issue reprinted in its entirety. Recalling a vivid moment in the life of the Windy City, the Chicagoan is a forgotten treasure, offered here for a whole new age to enjoy.
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(This carefully researched study of America's greatest sho...)
This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly entertaining presentation of the outrageous man and his exploits.
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(CHICAGO APARTMENTS is a unique examination of nearly100 e...)
CHICAGO APARTMENTS is a unique examination of nearly100 elevator structures whose luxurious amenities, generous or unusual interior spaces, architectural features, locations or innovations have made them significant in the history of Chicago apartment life. An introductory essay traces larger themes in the development of the city and the stories behind the creation of these fabled structures.
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Harris, Neil was born in 1938 in Brooklyn, AMERICA0. Son of Harold and Irene Harris.
AB, Columbia University, New York City, 1958. Bachelor, Cambridge University, England, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1965.
From instructor to assistant professor of history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965-1969;
associate professor, University of Chicago, 1969-1972;
professor, University of Chicago, 1972-1990;
Preston and Sterling Morton professor of history, University of Chicago, since 1990;
director National Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, 1975-1977;
department chairman history, University of Chicago, 1985-1988. Member of advisory board Temple Hoyne Buell Center, Columbia, 1984-1989. Member of advisory committee department architecture The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, since 1982.
Member Smithsonian Council, 1978-1984, chairman 1984-1992. Visiting professor Yale University, 1974. Director d'etudes Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, 1985.
( What was the place of the artist in a new society? How ...)
( What was the place of the artist in a new society? How ...)
(CHICAGO APARTMENTS is a unique examination of nearly100 e...)
( While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at ...)
( This carefully researched study of America's greatest s...)
(This carefully researched study of America's greatest sho...)
( Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years...)
(Explores the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicago...)
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Trustee H.F. DuPont Winterthur (Delaware) Museum, 1978-1987, Newberry Library. Member National Museum Superior vena cava syndrome Board, Washington, 1977-1984. Visiting committee Jean Paul Getty Museum, since 1995.
Board directors National Museum American History, since 1997. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Antiquarian Society, American Coun.Learned Socs.
(vice chairman New York 1978-1989, chairman 1989-1993), Organisation American Historians, Phi Beta Kappa (senator united chapters 1985-1997, visiting lecturer 1985-1986).