Steven Biel, Author . Norton $21.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-393-05912-0
Probably no painting ever achieved iconic status so quickly as Grant Wood's flat, meticulous rendering of two people, a house, a pitchfork and a barn. Its title refers to the architectural style of the building in the background, but from its...
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Steven Biel, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-393-31676-6
This look at the great ship's role as a cultural icon is ""provocative social history,"" said PW. (Sept.)
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Steven Biel, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (300p) ISBN 978-0-393-03965-8
Another book on the Titanic, but this one deals not with how the great ship went down but rather with the disaster as a cultural icon and how, from the very beginning, in 1912, it has been used to promote all manner of ideological positions. Biel's...
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