Libro Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of art in the new Deal era De Lauren Kroiz

portada Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of art in the new Deal era

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Lauren Kroiz

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780520286566

N° edición

Categorías

Historia del arte

Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of art in the new Deal era

Lauren Kroiz (Autor) · University Of California Press · Tapa Dura

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During the 1930s and 1940s, painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry formed a loose alliance as American Regionalists. Some lauded their depictions of the rural landscape and hardworking inhabitants of America’s midwestern heartland; others deemed their painting dangerous, regarding its easily understood realism as a vehicle for jingoism and even fascism. Cultivating Citizens focuses on Regionalists and their critics as they worked with and against universities, museums, and the burgeoning field of sociology. Lauren Kroiz shifts the terms of an ongoing debate over subject matter and style, producing the first study of Regionalist art education programs and concepts of artistic labor.