Humbug!

Mines the more than 300 newspapers published in New York City before the Civil War for art criticism, in order to trace the changing political positions of artists, artworks, and authors.

Wendy Katz is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The most recent of her books are Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press (Fordham University Press) and The Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle.