A Useful Art
Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design
Louis Zukofsky; Kenneth Sherwood, ed.; Kenneth Sherwood, intro.; John Taggart, afterword

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• PART ONE: ESSAYS
American Ironwork (1585-1856) - Old World Traditions - Iron Districts - Ironworking and Ironwork (1645-1790) - The Ironwork - Ironwork and Ironmasters
• Chalkware [September 1938]
• American Tin Ware [January 1939] - Manufacture - Unpainted Tin and It’s Workers - Toleware
• American Kitchen - The Setting - The Wares

PART TWO: RADIO SCRIPTS AND RESEARCH NOTES
Radio Scripts
• The Henry Clay Figurehead
• American Tinsmiths
• A Pair of New York water Pitchers
• Binnacle Figure - 1851
• “Wide Awake” Lantern and Eagle
• Duncan Phyfe
• Remmey and Crolius Stonewre
• The Caswell Carpet
• Friendship Quills
• Cotton Historical Prints




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