HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Simpson, Pamela H. (Pamela Hemenway), 1946-2011.
Subjects
Corn palaces -- Middle West.
Butter sculpture -- Middle West.
Plants as art material -- Middle West.
Art and society -- Middle West.
Middle West -- Social life and customs.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Simpson, Pamela H. (Pamela Hemenway), 1946-2011.
by title:
Corn palaces and but...
MARC Display
Corn palaces and butter queens : a history of crop art and dairy sculpture / Pamela H. Simpson.
by
Simpson, Pamela H. (Pamela Hemenway), 1946-2011.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Subjects
Corn palaces -- Middle West.
Butter sculpture -- Middle West.
Plants as art material -- Middle West.
Art and society -- Middle West.
Middle West -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780816676194 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0816676194 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780816676200 (pbk.)
0816676208 (pbk.)
Description:
xx, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Banquet Tables to Trophy Displays -- Cereal Architecture -- Butter Cows and Butter Ladies -- America's World's Fairs, 1893/1915 -- Boosters, Saracens, and Indians -- Mrs. Brooks and President Roosevelt -- An Ongoing Tradition -- Conclusion: Icons of Abundance.
Requests:
0
Summary:
" Teddy Roosevelt's head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks--with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs to the world's fairs, large exhibition buildings were covered with grains, fruits, and vegetables to declare in no uncertain terms the rich agricultural abundance of the United States. At the same fairs--but on a more intimate level--ice-cooled cases enticed fairgoers to marvel at an array of butter sculpture models including cows, buildings, flowers, and politicians, all proclaiming the rich bounty and unending promise held by the region.Often viewed as mere humorous novelties--fun and folksy, but not worthy of serious consideration--these lively forms of American art are described by Pamela H. Simpson in a fascinating and comprehensive history. From the pioneering cereal architecture of Henry Worrall at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition to the vast corn palaces displayed in Sioux City, Iowa, and elsewhere between 1877 and 1891, Simpson brings to life these dazzling large-scale displays in turn-of-the-century American fairs and festivals. She guides readers through the fascinating forms of crop art and butter sculpture, as they grew from state and regional fairs to a significant place at the major international exhibitions. The Minnesota State Fair's Princess Kay of the Milky Way contest, Lillian Colton's famed pictorial seed art, and the work of Iowa's "butter cow lady," Norma "Duffy" Lyon, are modern versions of this tradition. Beautifully illustrated with a bounty of never-before-seen archival images, Corn Palaces and Butter Queens is an accessible history of one of America's most unique and beguiling Midwestern art forms--an amusing and peculiar phenomenon that profoundly affected the way Americans saw themselves and their country's potential during times of drought and great depression. "--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
725.91097 Si
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.