This episode uses current debates over art protectionism to connect us back to the late-nineteenth-century debates over tariffs on foreign art. Miranda Knofczynski focuses on how the surprising claims of two artists involved in this debate reverse the usual expectations and alignments. Boston-born, but Italian-trained expatriate sculptor William Wetmore Story argued that he was an American artist by birth and character, and that his sculptures should be free from the tariff. Italian-born and trained sculptor Pompeo Luigi Coppini, who immigrated to Texas, was protected by the tariff on Story’s “Italian” art.

The episode was produced by Stefan Schöberlein. Transcript available at bit.ly/S10E06-Transcript.

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