Soft Cover. First Edition. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2". ISBN:0060912545. 489 pages about the American people and the arts. It is about people who love them and those who pretend to, those who purvey them and support them. It is about artists and performs and entrepreneurs and about those who admire what they do and those who sometimes deeply suspect their motives and their wares. This is public and person al history -- not art history and the story begins with the audiences at the time of the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago which celebrated our first 400 years. Where the arts in America are conce rned, that is when the 20th century begins. This book is about the impact of technology (mass communication) on the arts and about aesthetic quarrels and love affairs and crusades and the people who a cted in them -- movie pioneers like D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock. and other movers and shakers .

Condition:The book is as new; however, the previous owner wrote his name in ink on the underside and side of the pages (NOT inside the book). Black & White illustrations throughout of some fantastic vintage photos.

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