Isbn: 9780819566409 - a useful art: essays and radio scripts on american design (wesleyan centennial edition of the complete critical writings of louis zukofsky) (8 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

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Paperback. Condición: Fine. ix, 233 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Concerns the WPA/FAP Index of American Design. *** "A Useful Art is an invaluable chronicle of a major American poet's engagement with this country's indigenous tradition of design. In 1936, the Federal Arts Project (a division of the WPA) hired Louis Zukofsky, along with many others, to prepare a compendium of information on traditional American crafts. The Index of American Design aimed to define original U.S. culture at a time when interest in handicrafts had just begun to emerge. These previously unpublished essays and radio scripts are scrupulously researched investigations of various American handicrafts: the topics they cover include ironwork, tin ware, furniture maker Duncan Phyfe and friendship quilts. They also reflect Zukofsky's sense of the poem as a crafted object and his attempt to reconcile the labor theory of value with aesthetic production. This book, which can be seen in the context of kindred work by William Carlos William (In the American Grain) and Ezra Pound (Guide to Kulchur), will be of special interest to readers of 20th-century poetry, cultural critics, social historians, and scholars of design." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Paperback. Condición: Fine. Edited, with an introduction by Kenneth Sherwood. First paperback printing. Fine in printed wraps.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. centennial edition. 256 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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