TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynes,Russell
TI  - The tastemakers
PY  - 1955///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Brothers
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1945-1970
N1  - Includes index; Sources and acknowledgments; Contents: pt. 1. The public taste. Enter the lawyer's wife -- Every man a connoisseur -- Smiling lawns and tasteful cottages -- The art missionaries -- Art and fashion--cheap and popular -- Palaces for the people -- Packaged taste -- pt. 2. The private taste. Stately homes -- Societies for truth and beauty -- The peacock on the newel post -- Suitability! -- Whirlwind on Twenty-sixth street -- pt. 3. The corporate taste. Taste on wheels -- Suburbia in excelsis -- The art world -- Taste--tax deductible -- Highbrow, lowbrow, midbrow -- Exit the lawyer's wife
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