{"id":6092,"date":"2022-11-15T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:02:49","slug":"professor-mitchell-franks-new-publication-the-met-and-the-masses-in-postwar-america-a-study-of-the-museum-and-popular-art-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2022\/professor-mitchell-franks-new-publication-the-met-and-the-masses-in-postwar-america-a-study-of-the-museum-and-popular-art-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Mitchell Frank&#8217;s New Publication: The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Mitchell Frank&#8217;s New Publication: The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>New Publication<\/strong>: Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member <strong>Professor Mitchell Frank<\/strong> (SSAC-Art History\/ICSLAC) on the publication of his new book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/ca\/met-and-the-masses-in-postwar-america-9781350277274\/\"><em>The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education <\/em><\/a>(Bloosmburry Press). In his new monograph, Professor Frank \u201cexplores the collaborations, during the mid-20th century, between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Book-of-the-Month Club&#8230;&nbsp;Using never before published archival material, the book demonstrates how the Met sought to bring art to the masses in postwar America, whilst upholding its reputation as an institution of high culture.\u201dProfessor Frank&#8217;s full profile can be&nbsp;found <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/aah\/people\/mitchell-frank\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Publication: Congratulations to ICSLAC faculty member Professor Mitchell Frank (SSAC-Art History\/ICSLAC) on the publication of his new book&nbsp;The Met and the Masses in Postwar America: A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education (Bloosmburry Press). In his new monograph, Professor Frank \u201cexplores the collaborations, during the mid-20th century, between the Metropolitan Museum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}