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Fine Condition in Very Good jacket. Signed by Author. Dust Jacket sunned. Fine/Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Category: art; Signed by Author. ISBN: 039305912x. ISBN/EAN: 9780393059120. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4373.
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Fine in Fine jacket. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. L aid-in book reviews from the Washington Post and the Minneapolis Star-Tribu ne. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No rem ainder mark. Not clipped. 215 pages. 8 pages of color plates. 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.
