Steven Biel 52028

Down With the Old Canoe - A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

Paperback. Pp: 310. Explores how the Titanic disaster became an icon for a variety of groups, including suffragists and their opponents, radicals, reformers, capitalists, critics of technology, racists, and xenophobes. ISBN: 9780393316766. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Book number: 93441

Catalogue: Sociologie

Keywords: 9780393316766

Biel, Steven

American Gothic

NY: Norton, 2005. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Grant Wood's, American Gothic, has earned endless praise and endured disgust and criticism, illustrated.

Lorrin Wong, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 752029

Catalogue: Art: american

Keywords: 039305912X

Biel, Steven

American Gothic : a life of America's most famous painting

New York : W. W. Norton & Co. 2005. 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.ISBN: 039305912X.

MW BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 155819

Keywords: 039305912X

Biel, Steven,

American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting.

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2005. 2nd Printing. Hardcover., Vg (See Description), Vg/Vg Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Dj in Mylar Wrap. Pages: 215.

Vintage BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MASTER354808I

Catalogue: Art

Biel Steven

Down With the Old Canoe: a Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

NY: Norton, 1996. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., As soon as the great ship sank, the American public insisted that the disaster must mean something.

Lorrin Wong, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 605901

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 039303965X