| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati. By Wendy Jean Katz. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. xx, 264 pp. $44.95,ISBN 0-8142-0906-8.)

American artists of the first half of the nineteenth century were, more often than not, locally nurtured and trained; they were reliant on patrons, institutions, politics, and society in the "provinces" well beyond Boston, Philadelphia, and, of course, New York City. The assumed eternal primacy of New York as a capital of culture has rendered invisible the very local social, economic, and intellectual conditions of art production and reception beyond the eastern seaboard. In addition, scholars tend to legitimate their subjects by interpreting artists and their works within an examination or critique of nationalism, figured often in the nineteenth century as Manifest Destiny and exceptionalism.

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