Erika Doss: 2 books
Memorial Mania
Public Feeling in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of...
Kentucky by Design
The Decorative Arts and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Project -- the visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, this ambitious initiative set out to discover and document an authentic American style...