Paint by Number
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: May 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781568982823
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; American - General; Popular Culture - General; History; Art & Art Instruction; United States; Art; Techniques - Painting; Social aspects; Architecture / General; Non-Classifiable; Paint-by-numbers; Painting; Technique
First sentence: The paint by number phenomenon began in the Fall of 1952 when a now unknown San Francisco Bay area hobbyist entered a Craft Master still life in a local amateur art contest.
Description: "The how-to craze that swept the nation."--Cover subtitle.

Where art meets kitsch, a look at those who created the kits, the consumers who filled them in, and critics who reviled them.