Cultivating citizens The regional work of art in the New Deal era

Lauren Kroiz, 1980-

Book - 2018

"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....

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Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Lauren Kroiz, 1980- (author)
Physical Description
xvi, 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780520286566
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Iowa
  • 1. Art in the University
  • 2. Stone City
  • 3. How to Teach Art
  • 4. Grant Wood, H. W. Janson, and the Case of the Naked Chicken
  • Part 2. Missouri
  • 5. Art and the Museum
  • 6. Opening the Nelson Gallery
  • 7. Building a Regionalist Movement with Thomas Hart Benton
  • 8. Creative Appreciation and Museum Minds
  • Part 3. Wisconsin
  • 9. Art and Sociology
  • 10. John Steuart Curry's Amateurism
  • 11. Inventing the Artist-in-Residence
  • 12. Encouraging Rural Art
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index