We Gather Together: American Artists and the Harvest Eldredge Charles C.
The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest.The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its…
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The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest.The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists' studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in between--when many Americans were farmers and much of America was farmland.Organized in a series of case studies each devoted to a single crop, We Gather Together initially focuses on familiar USDA crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, and then expands to other yields by Native American harvesters and California