Austin Tourists and Trade

Roadside Craftsmen and the Highway Transforming Craft
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9330-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Austin, Bruce A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. A Short, Pretty Straight Road

2. See-It-Made

3. Sheltered Space

4. Tap, Tap, Tap

5. The Business Plan

6. Drivers

7. Passengers and Passages

8. Billboards

9. Less Copper, More Shoppe

10. No Shortcuts

Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce A. Austin is Professor in the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of A Symbiotic Partnership: Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley's 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions and Frans Wildenhain, 1950–75: Creative and Commercial Ceramics at Mid-Century; and editor of Imagine This! RIT's Innovation + Creativity Festival.