An edition of Art for every home (2015)

Art for every home

an illustrated index of Associated American Artists prints, ceramics, and textile designs : with an illustrated index of AAA mail-order catalogues and a list of exhibitions held at AAA galleries

Art for every home
Elizabeth Gaede Seaton, Jane M ...
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An edition of Art for every home (2015)

Art for every home

an illustrated index of Associated American Artists prints, ceramics, and textile designs : with an illustrated index of AAA mail-order catalogues and a list of exhibitions held at AAA galleries

Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile Designs is the digital companion to Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists (2015), the catalogue that accompanies the traveling exhibition of the same name organized by the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan. The exhibition and catalogue provide the first comprehensive and critical overview of Associated American Artists (AAA), including its innovative and far-reaching promotion of artists# work from the mid- 1930s to the early 1980s. To augment and amplify the exhibition#s presentation of the business, this digital publication provides illustrated comprehensive indexes of AAA prints, ceramics, textile designs, and sales materials, as well as a list of exhibitions held at the AAA galleries.

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Language
English
Pages
514

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Edition Notes

Exhibition Tour, September 15, 2015-January 31, 2016, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS; April 19-July 9, 2016, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; January 12-March 26, 2017, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY.

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Manhattan, KS
Copyright Date
2016

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Library of Congress
N8580

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Pagination
1 online resource (514 pages)
Number of pages
514

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Open Library
OL44540365M
OCLC/WorldCat
1007828771

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Work Description

"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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