IMPRINTING THE SOUTH: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region, 1920s - 1940s.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. First edition. 4to., x, 211 pp., over 60 plates, largely in b&w. A fine, as new copy in the illustrated dust jacket. Item #54713
With this book the author outlines the history of printmaking in the South, the growth of the print society movement, and the influence of social realism, New Deal art programs, and the Arts and Crafts movement on the aesthetics of southern printmakers. She also reviews the motifs, imagery, and subject matter - the natural world, farms and farmers at work, rural architecture and townscapes, African-American life, religious gatherings, and scenes of leisure and play (hunting, dancing, music-playing) - from the dust jacket.
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