Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era

by Lauren Kroiz

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520286561
• ISBN13: 9780520286566
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"