Photography and Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago: new models for exhibitions and scholarship
In the 1930s, a surging interest in early American vernacular arts, collectively referred to as folk art, converged with major photographic documentation projects of the Great Depression. These twin impulses—to collect the past and record the present—flourished concurrently during this critical peri...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/mcgoey_siegel.pdf |