His Barons Terrorize The Country
And Practical Considerations In Evaluation
Normally A Topic Split Into Two Parts And Covered In Two Different Semesters
Notable Recognition: Recipient of the American Book Award in 1986
In Interrogating Fundamental Assumptions About Difference And Equity
Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence Of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, And John Steuart Curry,New Crabb His Barons Terrorize The CountryFamous For Iconic Images Of The Rural Midwestsuch As American Gothic, Politics In Missouri, And Baptism In Kansasgrant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, And John Steuart Curry Have Long Been Lumped Together Under The Rubric The 'Regionalists.' James M. Dennis Offers A Fresh And Sophisticated Look At The Modernist Tendencies Of This Trio Of American Painters, Arguing That The Individual Styles Of Wood, Benton, And Curry Were Both Mislabeled And Misunderstood.