Glenn Adamson
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"--
520 Examine any phase of our nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there: from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
The social and political climate in which Wood's art flourished bears certain striking similarities to America today, as national identity and the tension between urban and rural areas reemerge as polarizing issues in a country facing the consequences of globalization and the technological revolution. Wood portrayed the tension and alienation of contemporary experience. By fusing meticulously observed reality with fables of childhood, he crafted unsettling...
