Mitchell B. Frank, Director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University, Canada, is the author of German Romantic Painting Redefined (2001) and Central European Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada (2007). He co-edited German Art History and Scientific Thought (2012) and History and Art History: Looking Past Disciplines (2020). He is currently editor-in-chief of the Canadian art historical journal RACAR (Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Metropolitan Miniatures: Culture and Commerce2. The Metropolitan Seminars: Middlebrow Culture3. The Met and Art Education in Postwar America4. Rembrandt’s Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer: Reproduction and Quality5. The Met, Popular Art Education, and the Problem of Abstract ArtAppendicesBibliographyIndex

A salutary reminder that museums were developing creative ways of engaging audiences beyond their walls decades before the internet. Frank's study of the Metropolitan's Miniatures and Seminars will interest not only historians of Cold War-era American culture, but all those in museums attempting to reconcile an inclusion agenda with commercial partnerships.

Mitchell B. Frank, Director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University, Canada, is the author of German Romantic Painting Redefined (2001) and Central European Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada (2007). He co-edited German Art History and Scientific Thought (2012) and History and Art History: Looking Past Disciplines (2020). He is currently editor-in-chief of the Canadian art historical journal RACAR (Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Metropolitan Miniatures: Culture and Commerce2. The Metropolitan Seminars: Middlebrow Culture3. The Met and Art Education in Postwar America4. Rembrandt’s Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer: Reproduction and Quality5. The Met, Popular Art Education, and the Problem of Abstract ArtAppendicesBibliographyIndex

A salutary reminder that museums were developing creative ways of engaging audiences beyond their walls decades before the internet. Frank's study of the Metropolitan's Miniatures and Seminars will interest not only historians of Cold War-era American culture, but all those in museums attempting to reconcile an inclusion agenda with commercial partnerships.

Mitchell B. Frank, Director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University, Canada, is the author of German Romantic Painting Redefined (2001) and Central European Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada (2007). He co-edited German Art History and Scientific Thought (2012) and History and Art History: Looking Past Disciplines (2020). He is currently editor-in-chief of the Canadian art historical journal RACAR (Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Metropolitan Miniatures: Culture and Commerce2. The Metropolitan Seminars: Middlebrow Culture3. The Met and Art Education in Postwar America4. Rembrandt’s Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer: Reproduction and Quality5. The Met, Popular Art Education, and the Problem of Abstract ArtAppendicesBibliographyIndex

A salutary reminder that museums were developing creative ways of engaging audiences beyond their walls decades before the internet. Frank's study of the Metropolitan's Miniatures and Seminars will interest not only historians of Cold War-era American culture, but all those in museums attempting to reconcile an inclusion agenda with commercial partnerships.