Pots of Promise - Mexicans and Pottery At Hull-House, 1920-40

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Cheryl R. Ganz and Margaret Strobel Klappentext Exploring the untold stories of Hull-House arts programs in the 1920s and 1930s and the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns, Pots of Promise also addresses the story of Mexicans in Chicago and the history of Hull-House in the years when Jane Addams increasingly turned her attention beyond the settlement house she had co-founded. This is the first book on the Hull-House Kilns and the first thorough analysis of Mexican immigrants in Chicago's Near West Side. Pots of Promise includes 131 color and black-and-white photographs, many of them previously unpublished, and four essays: "Bringing Art to Life: The Practice of Art at Hull-House" by Peggy Glowacki; "Incorporating Reform and Religion: Mexican Immigrants, Hull-House, and the Church" by David A. Badillo; "Shaping Clay, Shaping Lives: The Hull-House Kilns" by Cheryl R. Ganz; and "Forging a Mexican National Identity in Chicago: Mexican Migrants and Hull-House" by Rick A. Lopez. Zusammenfassung Addresses the story of Mexicans in Chicago and the history of Hull-House. This book examines Mexicans in the Hull-House colonia! Chicago's largest Mexican settlement. It includes 131 color and black-and-white photographs! many of them previously unpublished! and four essays.

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• Authors: Cheryl Ganz, Cheryl R. (EDT)/ Strobel Ganz, Cheryl R. Strobel Ganz, Cheryl Strobel Ganz, Margaret Strobel
• Assisted by: Cheryl R Ganz (Editor), Cheryl R. Ganz (Editor), Margaret Strobel (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2004
• EAN: 9780252071973
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07197-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 273 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest; Latinos in Chicago and the Mid; Latinos in Chicago and Midwest; Latinos in Chicago and the Mid
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous