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A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943
A New Deal for Native Art Indian Arts and Federal Policy 19331943
Author: Jennifer McLerran
As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets. — In A New Deal for...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816527663
ISBN-10: 0816527660
Publication Date: 4/18/2009
Pages: 320
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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