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Tourists and Trade
- Roadside Craftsmen and the Highway Transforming Craft
Af: Bruce A. Austin
Engelsk
Bogcover for Tourists and Trade af Bruce A. Austin, 9781438493312
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Engelsk
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258
ISBN-13:
9781438493312
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1438493312
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Udg. Dato:
1 jun 2023
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
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Oplagsdato:
1 jun 2023
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Tourists and Trade

- Roadside Craftsmen and the Highway Transforming Craft
Af: Bruce A. Austin
Engelsk
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How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.

Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category

Amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, in 1929, Clarence Wemett, an upstate New York petroleum merchant, underwrote a craft shop bordering U.S. Route 20 and, a few years later, a different one 15 miles away. At precisely the wrong time for such things to happen, the improbable idea of selling discretionary goods targeted to a consumer market characterized by 25 percent unemployment at a rural highway''s roadside achieved traction: the first shop was in business for a quarter century, the second for nearly 40 years. More significant than their surprising longevity is the shops'' long-lasting contribution to a nascent, national movement that spans crafts personally created for individual use to the commercial work that sees craft elevated to a fine art-craft objects moved from pantry shelves to museum vitrines and craftworkers from hobbyists to professionals. The roadside shops introduced a business model that, 70 years later, is widely experienced on a very different but equally "super" highway, the Internet, and their story is a chapter in the pre-history of the modern crafts movement.

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Engelsk
Sider:
258
ISBN-13:
9781438493312
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1438493312
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Udg. Dato:
1 jun 2023
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
1 jun 2023
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