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Salve Regina University's 13th Annual Conference in Cultural and Historic Preservation The Art, Architecture, and Literature of the Gilded Age October 15, 17-2009 Newport, RI The term "Gilded Age" is but one of many, such as the Age of Opulence, Age of Energy, the Brown, Mauve and White decades, and the American Renaissance, that attempts to characterize a particular period, c1860-c1910, in American history. Fueled by the great prosperity after the Civil War, artists, writers, designers, architects and patrons looked both internally and abroad in an attempt to prove the United States equal to the Old World. These efforts pervaded all forms of artistic media, especially art, interior design, architecture, sculpture, literature and photography. Artistic and literary sources for the Gilded Age were wide ranging from the American Colonies to European Renaissances to the orient, and resulted in multi-media presentations of American supremacy. Salve Regina University's 13th Annual Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation will explore the application of these ideas to the art, architecture, interior design, decoration, and literature of the Gilded Age epoch. For more information, please visit www.salve.edu/chp2009<http://www.salve.edu/chp2009> or email chpconference@salve.edu<mailto:chpconference@salve.edu> Catherine W. Zipf Associate Professor Department of Cultural and Historic Preservation Salve Regina University Catherine.Zipf@salve.edu
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