Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound

by Leo G. Mazow

Alternately praised as "an American original" and lampooned as an arbiter of kitsch, the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton has been the subject of myriad monographs and journal articles, remaining almost as controversial today as he was in his own time. Missing from this literature, however, is an understanding of the profound ways in which sound figures in the artist's enterprises. Prolonged attention to the sonic realm yields rich insights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271050837
• ISBN13: 9780271050836
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 10.3"