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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 These previously unpublished essays and radio scripts are scrupulously researched investigations of various American handicrafts: the topics they cover include ironwork, tin ware, furniture maker Duncan Phyfe and friendship quilts. They also reflect Zukofsky's sense of the poem as a crafted object and his attempt to reconcile the labor theory of value with aesthetic production. This book, which can be seen in the context of kindred work by William Carlos Williams (In the American Grain) and Ezra Pound (Guide to Kulchur), will be of special interest to readers of 20th-century poetry, cultural critics, social historians, and scholars of design.
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A Useful Art: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design (The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky 6)
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Wesleyan University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 081956639X
ISBN 13: 9780819566393
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hardcover. Condizione: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. Codice articolo M081956639XZ3
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A Useful Art: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design
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Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2003
ISBN 10: 081956639X
ISBN 13: 9780819566393
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 8vo. Dark blue cloth. x, 238pp. Illustrated. Volume VI in The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings. Collects previously unpublished cultural criticism written between 1938 and 1940 by Zukofsky, as a senior researchist and writer for the WPA-sponsored program, the Index of American Design. This book makes available the one, known book-length work by him that remained unpublished. Mild dustiness to the head edge and a minor spot to the fore edge, the upper board just a little scratched and the lower board just a little marked. No dust jacket (as issued?). Codice articolo 006719
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