Cultivating Citizens
Subtitle: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 30, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780520286566
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era