Objects: USA 2020 - Glenn Adamson - Monacelli Press - relié - Beau livre

OBJECTS: USA 2020 HAILS A NEW GENERATION OF ARTIST-CRAFTSPEOPLE BY REVISITING A GROUNDBREAKING EVENT THAT REDEFINED AMERICAN ART. In 1969, an exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution that redefined American art. Objects: USA united a cohort of artists inventing new approaches to art-making by way of craft media. Subsequently touring to twenty-two museums across the country, where it was viewed by over half a million Americans, and then to eleven cities in Europe, the exhibition canonized such artists as Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Wharton Esherick, Wendell Castle, and George Nakashima, and introduced others who would go on to achieve widespread art-world acclaim, including Dale Chihuly, Michele Oka Doner, J. B. Blunk, and Ron Nagle. Objects: USA 2020 revisits this revolutionary exhibition and its accompanying catalog-which has become a bible of sorts to curators, gallerists, dealers, craftspeople, and artists-by pairing fifty participants from the original exhibition with fifty