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Art for every home : Associated American Artists, 1934-2000

Title

Art for every home : Associated American Artists, 1934-2000 / Edited by Elizabeth G. Seaton, Jane Myers, Gail Windisch ; Foreword by Linda Duke ; With contributions by Ellen Paul Denker, Karen J. Herbaugh, Lara Kuykendall, Jane Myers, Bill North, Elizabeth G. Seaton, Susan Teller, Tiffany Elena Washington, Kristina Wilson, Gail Windisch.

Publication

Manhattan, Kansas : Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, [2015]
New Haven : Yale University Press

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	MDBF+ 16-4304	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

287 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"This book will provide the first comprehensive and critical overview of Associated American Artists (AAA), the commercial enterprise best known as the publisher of prints by Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. It addresses not only AAA's storied involvement in the sale of American prints via mail-order catalogue, but also its ongoing promotion of American art in a range of mediums over six decades. Through aggressive marketing of studio prints, reproductions of art, ceramics and textiles, and associations with corporate advertisers, AAA sought to bring "original" American art over the threshold of every American home"--

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Note

"Published by the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition "Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934-2000."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.

Contents

A chronology of Associated American Artists, 1934-2000 / Gail Windisch -- Delivering art to American homes : Associated American Artists and the two men who shaped it, 1934--84 / Gail Windisch -- "Genuine acceptance" : Aaron Bohrod and Associated American Artists / Jane Myers -- Prints in the heartland : Raymond L. Budge / Elizabeth G. Seaton -- The Associated American Artists gallery setting / Tiffany Elena Washington -- Cultural democracy/consumer democracy : New Deal printmaking and Associated American Artists, 1934-43 / Elizabeth G. Seaton -- Gelatones and paintagraphs : Associated American Artists and the color reproduction / Bill North -- "Art of every possible service" : Associated American Artists and corporate commissions during the war decade / Elizabeth G. Seaton, Gail Windisch, and Jane Myers -- John Steuart Curry's Our good earth / Lara Kuykendall -- Associated American Artists and corporate patronage / Gail Windisch and Jane Myers -- Modern art for modern living : Associated American Artists and decorative home accessories / Gail Windisch and Ellen Paul Denker -- "Ceramic pieces in the mode of our day" : Stonelain and decorative taste in the American home, 1950-54 / Kristine Wilson -- "Apology areas," or How to decorate with pictures / Kristina Wilson -- Textile art for the masses / Karen J. Herbaugh -- At Associated American Artists with Sylvan Cole Jr. / Susan Teller.

Call Number

MDBF+ 16-4304

ISBN

9780300215793 (hardback)
0300215797 (hardback)

LCCN

2015020489

OCLC

910009711

Title

Publisher

Manhattan, Kansas : Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, [2015]

Distributor

New Haven : Yale University Press,

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.

Added Author

Seaton, Elizabeth Gaede, editor.

Myers, Jane, 1955- editor.

Windisch, Gail, editor.

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

Research Call Number

MDBF+ 16-4304

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