Isbn: 9780393059120 - american gothic: a life of america's most famous painting (10 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Very good. 215 pages. 215 pp.

First Edition. "Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 215 pages; Description: 215, 8 p. Of col. Plates : ill. (some col. ) ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-199) and index. Subjects: Wood, Grant (1891-1942) --American Gothic --Wood, Grant (1891-1942) --Public opinion --National characteristics, American, in art. Summary: The origins and multiple meanings of Grant Wood's indelible portrait. "MasterfulÂ. This is cultural studies at its best." -Chase Madar, Time Out New York Is there anyone who has not seen the sturdy Iowa farmer with his pitchfork and his thin-lipped wife or daughter? Ever since it met the public eye in 1930, the work titled American Gothic has elicited admiration, disgust, reverence, and ridicule and has been reproduced hundreds of thousands of times, in every medium. Painted by a self-proclaimed "bohemian" who studied in Paris, the image was first seen as a critique of Midwestern Puritanism and what H. L. Mencken called "the booboisie." During the Depression, it came to represent endurance in hard times through the quintessential American values of thrift, work, and faith. Later, in television, advertising, politics, and popular culture, American Gothic evolved into parody, all the while remaining a lodestar by which one might measure closeness to or distance from the American heartland. With broad perspective, acute insight, and humor, Steven Biel explores the strangely enduring life of America's most popular painting. With 39 illustrations." 1 Kg.…