Drawing on America's Past
Subtitle: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807827949
Subjects: American history; Decorative arts & crafts; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Essays; American - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; USA; Folk & Outsider Art; Art / History / American
First sentence: In this 1918 article, "On Creating a Usable Past," literary critic Van Wyck Brooks lamented what he and many of his colleagues perceived as the poverty of American culture.