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Tourists and Trade
- Roadside Craftsmen and the Highway Transforming Craft
Engelsk Paperback
Tourists and Trade
- Roadside Craftsmen and the Highway Transforming Craft
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
258
ISBN-13:
9781438493299
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438493290
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 dec 2023
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 dec 2023
Forfatter(e):
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