Art for every home : Associated American Artists, 1934-2000 / edited by Elizabeth G. Seaton, Jane Myers, Gail Windisch ; foreword by Linda Duke ; with contributions by Ellen Paul Denker, Karen J. Herbaugh, Lara Kuykendall, Jane Myers, Bill North, Elizabeth G. Seaton, Susan Teller, Tiffany Elena Washington, Kristina Wilson, Gail Windisch.
Publisher:
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of ArtKansas State University,
"Published by the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition "Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934-2000." "Tour: September 15, 2015-January 31, 2016, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art ... April 19-July 9, 2016, Grey Art Gallery, New York University ... September 16, 2016-January 2, 2017, American Textile History Museum ... January 26-March 26, 2017, Syracuse University Art Galleries ..."--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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