Cultivating Citizens

The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-28656-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 265 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 984 g

During the 1930s and 1940s, 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 their painting dangerous, regarding its easily understood realism as a vehicle for jingoism and even fascism. Cultivating Citizens focuses on Regionalists and their critics as they worked with and against universities, museums, and the burgeoning field of sociology. Lauren Kroiz shifts the terms of an ongoing debate over subject matter and style, producing the first study of Regionalist art education programs and concepts of artistic labor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroiz, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations • ix
Preface • xiii
Acknowledgments • xv
Introduction • 1
PART 1: IOWA
1. Art in the University • 19
2. Stone City • 24
3. How to Teach Art • 53
4. Grant Wood, H. W. Janson, and the Case of the Naked Chicken • 74
PART 2: MISSOURI
5. Art and the Museum • 93
6. Opening the Nelson Gallery • 102
7. Building a Regionalist Movement with Thomas Hart Benton • 115
8. Creative Appreciation and Museum Minds • 138
PART 3: WISCONSIN
9. Art and Sociology • 161
10. John Steuart Curry’s Amateurism • 166
11. Inventing the Artist-in-Residence • 182
12. Encouraging Rural Art • 202
Conclusion • 223
Notes • 231
Bibliography • 275

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Kroiz is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle.