Kentucky by design : the decorative arts and American culture

Kentucky by design : the decorative arts and American culture / Erika Doss, Jerrold Hirsch, and Jean M. Burks ; edited by Andrew Kelly.

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: Doss, Erika, 1956-, Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-, Burks, Jean M., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Subjects:
Index of American Design.
Index of American Design
1900-1999
Decorative arts > Kentucky.
Folk art > Kentucky.
Art and society > United States > History > 20th century.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art and society
Decorative arts
Folk art
Kentucky
United States
History
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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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