Arts and Charts

Bibliography

This exhibit draws on the scholarship of historians, sociologists, economists, and literary and art critics. For further reading, see

Susan Buck-Morss, “Envisioning Capital: Political Economy on Display,” Critical Inquiry 21 (1995) 

Sarah Burns, “Party Animals: Thomas Nast, William Holbrook Beard, and the Bears of Wall Street,” American Art Journal 30 (1999)

Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, and Nicky Marsh, “Imagining the Market: A Visual History,” Public Culture 24 (2012)

Mike Emmison and Alec McHoul, “Drawing on the Economy: Cartoon Discourse and the Production of a Category,” CulturalStudies 1 (1987)

Ann Fabian, “Speculation on Distress: The Popular Discourse of the Panics of 1837 and 1857, Yale Journal of Criticism 3 (1989)

Walter A. Friedman, Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014)

Peter Knight, Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)

Jessica Lepler, “Pictures of Panic: Constructing Hard Times in Words and Images,” Common-place 10 (2010)

Jonathan Levy, “The Freaks of Fortune: Moral Responsibility for Booms and Busts in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10 (2011)

Timothy Mitchell, “Fixing the Economy,” Cultural Studies 12 (1998)

Scott Reynolds Nelson, “A Financial Crisis in Prints and Cartoons,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10 (2011)

Edward J. Nygen, “The Almighty Dollar: Money as a Theme in American Painting,” Winterthur Portfolio 23 (1988)

Caitlin Rosenthal, "Storybook-keepers: Narratives and Numbers in Nineteenth-Century America," Common-place 12 (2012)

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