Revivals! diverse traditions, 1920-1945 : the history of twentieth-century American craft
Title:
Revivals! diverse traditions, 1920-1945 : the history of twentieth-century American craft
JLCTITLE245:
Janet Kardon, editor ; with essays by Ralph T. Coe [and others].
Publication Information:
New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the American Craft Museum, 1994.
Physical Description:
303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
ISBN:
9780810919556
9780810926011
General Note:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the American Craft Museum, New York Oct. 20, 1994-Feb. 26, 1995.
Abstract:
Features the many contributions of five strongly individual aesthetics - African American, Appalachian, Colonial Revival, Hispanic, and Native American - to crafts in the United States between 1920 and 1945.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282) and index.
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Additional Physical Form Available:
Also issued online.
Contents:
Within our shores: diverse craft revivals and survivals / by Janet Kardon -- Culture and crisis: Americans and the craft revival / by Harvey Green -- Colonial revival in American craft: nationalism and the opposition to multicultural and regional traditions / William B. Rhoads -- New Deal craft programs and their social implications / by Hildreth J. York -- The WPA Federal Art Project at Timberline / by Francis V. O'Connor -- Native American craft / by Ralph T. Coe -- Cultural survival and innovation: Native American aesthetics / Gail Tremblay -- The Hispanic craft revival in New Mexico / by William Wroth -- Puerto Rican lacemaking: a persistent tradition / by Annie Santiago de Curet and April Kingsley -- "Keeping on keeping on": African American craft during the era of revivals / by John Michael Vlach -- The lowcountry basket in "Changeful Times" / By Dale Rosengarten -- Ceramics : from Africa to America Winifred Owens-Hart -- Ruth Clement Bond and the TVA quilts / by April Kingsley -- From mission to market: craft in the southern Appalachians / by Janet Kessler.