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Title: The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Miles Orvell ISBN: 0-8078-4246-X Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: April, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Superb study of American culture emerging into modernity
Comment: Orvell's THE REAL THING is the sort of book I wish I'd written. It is entertaining, wide-ranging across many cultural genres, and offers a coherent and stimulating account of American culture in the late 29th and early 20th centuries. It is especially acute on such complex and difficult-to-classify cultural phenomena as the rise of department stores and mass-produced consumer goods, the "aestheticizing" photographs of the machine-age city (and even of machine parts themselves) by such artists as Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. An outstanding study I return to again and again.

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