Kentucky by Design : The Decorative Arts and American Culture /

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The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Project -- the visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, this ambitious initiative set out to discover and document an authentic American...

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Other Authors: Burks, Jean M., 1949-, Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-, Doss, Erika, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Index of American Design.
Folk art.
Decorative arts.
Art and society.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
Art et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Art populaire > Kentucky.
Arts decoratifs > Kentucky.
Art and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Folk art > Kentucky.
Decorative arts > Kentucky.
United States.
Kentucky.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Regional Reputations, Modern Tastes, and Cultural Nationalism: Kentucky and the Index of American Design, 1936-1942 / Erika Doss
  • Kentucky Folk Art: New Deal Approaches / Jerrold Hirsch
  • The Shaker Renderings from Kentucky: Models for American Modernism / Jean M. Burks
  • The Catalog.

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