Tourists and Trade - Roadside Craftsmen and the Highway Transforming Craft

How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.

About the author

Bruce A. Austin is Professor in the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of A Symbiotic Partnership: Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley's 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions and Frans Wildenhain, 1950–75: Creative and Commercial Ceramics at Mid-Century; and editor of Imagine This! RIT's Innovation + Creativity Festival.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce A. Austin
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781438493312
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9331-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Rural communities, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Local History, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, History of the Americas, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups