Depression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture: A Gentle Reconstruction - Hardcover

Beckham, Sue Bridwell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807114472 ISBN 13: 9780807114476

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Presentation signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The spine of the dust jacket is faded.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Recent books by Karal Marling ( Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression , LJ 11/15/82) and by Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz ( Democratic Vistas: Post Offices & Public Art in the New Deal , LJ 3/1/84) demonstrated that art previously thought beneath serious criticism could be the subject of lively writing and creative interpretation. Here, Beckham concentrates on murals in the South, where distinctive regional factors created a fascinating mix of artistic and public concerns. The writing is lively, sometimes flip, and always stimulating. While not everyone will see in the murals what Beckham does, it will be impossible for those who read it to walk by a post office mural without pondering its meaning about the American public and art. Highly recommended.
- Charles K. Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0807114472
• ISBN 13: 9780807114476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368