Rave Reviews: American Art and its Critics, 1826-1925 Book

	Foreword	11
	Acknowledgments	13
	Lenders to the Exhibition	15
	An Introduction to the History of American Art Criticism to 1925	17
	The Public Display of Art in New York City, 1664-1914	31
	Annual Exhibitions and the Birth of American Art Criticism to 1865	53
	"In the Midst of an Era of Revolution": The New York Art Press and the Annual Exhibitions of the National Academy of Design in the 1870s	93
	The National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists: Rivals Viewed by Critics, 1878-1906	107
	A "Salon of America"? Defining Nationalism at the National Academy of Design, 1909-1915	123
	"As National as the National Biscuit Company": The Academy, the Critics, and the Armory Show	131
	Ekphrasis: A Non-critical Look at Early Nineteenth-century Portraiture through Poetry	145
	Catalogue of the Exhibition	159
	Notes to the Reader	160
App. A	The Critics	273
App. B	National Academy of Design Annual Exhibitions, 1826-1925	276
	Reviews of the Annual Exhibitions of the National Academy of Design, 1826-1925	277
	Index to Artists and Works in the Exhibition	301