Corn Palaces and Butter Queens : A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture /

Show other versions (1)

"Teddy Roosevelt's head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks--with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fair...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simpson, Pamela H. (Pamela Hemenway), 1946-2011
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plants as art material.
Manners and customs.
Corn palaces.
Butter sculpture.
Art and society.
ARCHITECTURE > Regional.
Plantes (Materiau d'artistes) > Midwest (États-Unis)
Art et societe > Midwest (États-Unis)
Plants as art material > Middle West.
Corn palaces > Middle West.
Butter sculpture > Middle West.
Art and society > Middle West.
Middle West.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Middle West > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Banquet Tables to Trophy Displays
  • Cereal Architecture
  • Butter Cows and Butter Ladies
  • America's World's Fairs, 1893/1915
  • Boosters, Saracens, and Indians
  • Mrs. Brooks and President Roosevelt
  • An Ongoing Tradition
  • Conclusion: Icons of Abundance.

Similar Items