A New Deal for Quilts
Seiten
2023
International Quilt Museum (Verlag)
978-1-7352784-5-2 (ISBN)
International Quilt Museum (Verlag)
978-1-7352784-5-2 (ISBN)
A New Deal for Quilts explores how, in response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration used quilts to inspire perseverance and thriftiness among Americans during dire conditions, encouraging them to create quilts both individually and collectively in response to unemployment, displacement, and recovery efforts.
During the Roosevelt administration’s efforts to combat the Great Depression, the quilt became an emblem for how to lift one’s family out of poverty, piece by piece. A New Deal for Quilts explores how the U.S. government drew on quilts and quilt-making, encouraging Americans to create quilts individually and collectively in response to unemployment, displacement, and recovery efforts. Quilters shared their perspectives on New Deal programs such as the Tennessee Valley Authority and the National Recovery Administration, which sent quilts as gifts to the Roosevelts and other officials. Federal programs used quilts’ symbolic heft to communicate the values and behaviors individuals should embrace amid the Depression, perceiving the practical potential of crafts to lift morale and impart new skills. The government embraced quilts to demonstrate the efficacy of its programs, show women how they could contribute to their families’ betterment, and generate empathy for impoverished Americans.
With more than one hundred period photographs and images of quilts, A New Deal for Quilts evokes the visual environment of the Depression while conveying ways craft, work, race, poverty, and politics intersected during this pivotal era. Accompanying the book is a fall 2023 exhibit at the International Quilt Museum, featuring 1930s quilts drawn from its renowned collection.
During the Roosevelt administration’s efforts to combat the Great Depression, the quilt became an emblem for how to lift one’s family out of poverty, piece by piece. A New Deal for Quilts explores how the U.S. government drew on quilts and quilt-making, encouraging Americans to create quilts individually and collectively in response to unemployment, displacement, and recovery efforts. Quilters shared their perspectives on New Deal programs such as the Tennessee Valley Authority and the National Recovery Administration, which sent quilts as gifts to the Roosevelts and other officials. Federal programs used quilts’ symbolic heft to communicate the values and behaviors individuals should embrace amid the Depression, perceiving the practical potential of crafts to lift morale and impart new skills. The government embraced quilts to demonstrate the efficacy of its programs, show women how they could contribute to their families’ betterment, and generate empathy for impoverished Americans.
With more than one hundred period photographs and images of quilts, A New Deal for Quilts evokes the visual environment of the Depression while conveying ways craft, work, race, poverty, and politics intersected during this pivotal era. Accompanying the book is a fall 2023 exhibit at the International Quilt Museum, featuring 1930s quilts drawn from its renowned collection.
Janneken Smucker is a professor of history at West Chester University specializing in digital history and material culture. She is the author of Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon. Smucker lectures and writes about quilts for popular and academic audiences and hosts Running Stitch: A QSOS Podcast, drawing on oral histories with quiltmakers.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Mix of 150 black and white photographs and color illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 229 x 279 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7352784-5-9 / 1735278459 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7352784-5-2 / 9781735278452 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Schnittmuster an die eigene Körperform anpassen
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
Edition Michael Fischer (Verlag)
CHF 34,90
Buch | Softcover (2024)
Edition Michael Fischer (Verlag)
CHF 24,90
dekorativer Christbaum-Schmuck von edel bis süß für ein zauberhaftes …
Buch | Softcover (2024)
Edition Michael Fischer (Verlag)
CHF 15,90
