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A symbiotic partnership : marrying commerce to education at Gustav Stickley's 1903 arts & crafts exhibitions / Bruce A. Austin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Arts and crafts seriesPublisher: Rochester, New York : RIT Press, [2022]Description: 67 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781939125958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.074/74766 23/eng/20220519
LOC classification:
  • NK1141 .A97 2022
Contents:
Exhibitions, Expositions, and Trade Fairs -- The Photographs -- The Furniture -- Stickley's Marketing -- Rochester's Readiness and Theodore Hanford Pond -- The Exhibitions' Publicity and Reception.
Summary: "The 1903 Syracuse, New York, Arts and Crafts Exhibition is a signature event in the Movement's historical canon. But were it not for what else happened, the exhibit could be dismissed as self-serving, shameless shilling for Gustav Stickley's hometown United Crafts furniture enterprise. Thanks to an unprecedented extension to and the context of a second venue in Rochester, the exhibit's, United Crafts', and the Movement's credibility were enhanced by the halo afforded by the not-for-profit world of higher education. Why did the exhibit travel to Rochester? What and who motivated the move from the first venue to the second? Whose interests were served? And how was the connection between United Crafts and Mechanics Institute formed, such that the unique traveling exhibition occurred?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books Books Stickley Museum Library (Non-Circulating) Main Reading Room NK1141 .A97 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SMCF23020053

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exhibitions, Expositions, and Trade Fairs -- The Photographs -- The Furniture -- Stickley's Marketing -- Rochester's Readiness and Theodore Hanford Pond -- The Exhibitions' Publicity and Reception.

"The 1903 Syracuse, New York, Arts and Crafts Exhibition is a signature event in the Movement's historical canon. But were it not for what else happened, the exhibit could be dismissed as self-serving, shameless shilling for Gustav Stickley's hometown United Crafts furniture enterprise. Thanks to an unprecedented extension to and the context of a second venue in Rochester, the exhibit's, United Crafts', and the Movement's credibility were enhanced by the halo afforded by the not-for-profit world of higher education. Why did the exhibit travel to Rochester? What and who motivated the move from the first venue to the second? Whose interests were served? And how was the connection between United Crafts and Mechanics Institute formed, such that the unique traveling exhibition occurred?"-- Provided by publisher.

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