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Tourists and Trade - Bruce A. Austin

Tourists and Trade

Roadside Craftsmen and the Highway Transforming Craft

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Buch | Hardcover
258 Seiten
2023
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9331-2 (ISBN)
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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.

Bruce A. Austin is Professor in the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of A Symbiotic Partnership: Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley's 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions and Frans Wildenhain, 1950–75: Creative and Commercial Ceramics at Mid-Century; and editor of Imagine This! RIT's Innovation + Creativity Festival.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. A Short, Pretty Straight Road

2. See-It-Made

3. Sheltered Space

4. Tap, Tap, Tap

5. The Business Plan

6. Drivers

7. Passengers and Passages

8. Billboards

9. Less Copper, More Shoppe

10. No Shortcuts

Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 24
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Kreatives Gestalten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-4384-9331-2 / 1438493312
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-9331-2 / 9781438493312
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