About this title: A Useful Art is an invaluable chronicle of a major American poet's engagement with this country's indigenous tradition of design. In 1936, the Federal Arts Project (a division of the WPA) hired Louis Zukofsky, along with many others, to prepare a compendium of information on traditional American crafts. The Index of American Design aimed to define original U.S. culture at a time when interest in handicrafts had just begun to emerge. These previously unpublished essays and radio scripts are scrupulously researched investigations of various American handicrafts: the topics they cover include ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan
Date Published: 2003-07-09
ISBN-13:9780819566409ISBN:0819566403
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Description: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design. Foreword by John Taggart. Very fine and bright stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp text throughout. Illustrations. read more
Binding: Library Binding
Publisher: Wesleyan
Date Published: 7-9-03
ISBN-13:9780819566393ISBN:081956639X
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, and unread hardcover missing its dust jacket with light shelfwear to boards and publisher's mark to one edge-Nice. 1.11 lbs. read more
Binding: Library Binding
Publisher: Wesleyan
Date Published: 7-9-03
ISBN-13:9780819566393ISBN:081956639X
Description: VERY GOOD. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the boards (no dust jacket) and remainder mark to one edge-NICE! 1.11 lbs. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England, Middletown, CT
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780819566409ISBN:0819566403
Description: NEW. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. ix, 233 pp., bib. notes; 24 cm. BRAND NEW. Concerns the WPA/FAP Index of American Design. "A Useful Art is an invaluable chronicle of a major American poet's engagement with this country's indigenous tradition of design. In 1936, the Federal Arts Project (a division of the WPA) hired Louis Zukofsky, along with many others, to prepare a compendium of information on traditional American crafts. The Index of American Design aimed to define original U.S. culture at a ... read more
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