Description: "Your ticket to the best state fair crafts-from Choctaw basketry to sculpted butter cows-with more than 100 amazing images of American craft art!"-- Provided by publisher.
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"The cover art of State Fairs: Growing American Craft is the first hint that this book is something special. It's a photo of a piece of crop art--an assemblage made entirely from seeds that is intended to help promote a state's crops. A seed map in the book's first pages shows that the assemblage's cow is made out of mung beans and yellow mustard seeds, and the roosters are mainly pink peppercorns and red lentils. This blend of down-home and over-the-top is what makes the arts, crafts and objects in State Fairs so enthralling...State Fairs is an exhaustive history of a category of art-making that is both essential to American culture and underappreciated for its historical impact."