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Cultivating citizens : the regional work of art in the New Deal era / Lauren Kroiz

Catalog Data

Author:
Kroiz, Lauren 1980-  Search this
Subject:
Wood, Grant 1891-1942  Search this
Janson, H. W (Horst Woldemar) 1913-1982  Search this
Benton, Thomas Hart 1889-1975  Search this
Curry, John Steuart 1897-1946  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Middle West
Date:
2018
20th century
Notes:
AAPG copy Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment.
Contents:
Art in the university -- Stone City -- How to teach art -- Grant Wood, H.W. Janson and "the case of the naked chicken" -- Art and the museum -- Opening the Nelson Gallery -- Building a regionalist movement with Thomas Hart Benton -- Creative appreciation and museum minds -- Art and sociology -- John Steuart Curry's amateurism -- Inventing the artist in residence -- Encouraging rural art
Summary:
"Cultivating Citizens rethinks the aesthetics and politics of regionalism in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. During this period, 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 Regionalist painting dangerous, regarding its easily understood realism as a vehicle for jingoism, chauvinism, and even fascism. Cultivating Citizens shifts the terms of this ongoing debate over subject matter and style by considering heretofore neglected Regionalist programs of art education and concepts of artistic labor."--Provided by publisher.
Topic:
Regionalism and the arts--History  Search this
Regionalism in art  Search this
Arts, American  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1089721