Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American DesignUNC Press Books, 2002 - 253 páginas This beautifully illustrated book commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. Widely regarded as one of the New Deal's most important art projects, the Index began in 1935 as a unit o |
Contenido
Picturing a Usable Past | 1 |
Collecting Folk Art in America 18801940 | 45 |
The Index of American Design and New Deal Notions of Cultural Nationalism | 61 |
Catalogue | 74 |
Carvings | 75 |
Domestic Artifacts | 106 |
Furniture | 132 |
Textiles | 148 |
Toys | 182 |
Trade Signs and Figures | 202 |
Weather Vanes Whirligigs and One Drum | 220 |
Select Bibliography | 239 |
Artists Biographies | 245 |
Annotated List of State Projects | 249 |
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Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design Virginia Tuttle Clayton,Elizabeth Stillinger,Erika Doss Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
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