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    <![CDATA[Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and the Amazing Lillian Colton]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;At the same time Andy Warhol was changing American art in New York City, Lillian Colton, owner of the Cinderella Clip &rsquo;n&rsquo; Curl in Owatonna, Minnesota, launched her own version of pop art. From her patient hands, practiced at embroidering linens and crocheting lace, came captivating portraits of Jesus, Elvis, Oprah, Lady Diana, Clinton, and Prince, intricately rendered in timothy, bromegrass, canola, poppy seeds, salsify, alsike, bird&rsquo;s-foot trefoil, grits, and wild rice. &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; <em>Seed Queen</em> brings to light the story of this crop artist extraordinaire—how she developed her matchless aesthetic by merging rural traditions from her childhood on a farm with a love of Hollywood movies, training as a hairstylist, and skills in drawing and painting—and the larger story of crop art as it has evolved over time. &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; This lively illustrated volume features dozens of color images of Colton&rsquo;s crop art and of the work of those she has continued to inspire since she took home the blue ribbon for her portrait of Nixon at the 1969 Minnesota State Fair. Countless artists have taken the genre in new directions in recent years, opening up the pantheon of the famous, taking on political issues, and satirizing those in power—all through the meticulous positioning of thousands of individual seeds. &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; <strong>Colleen Sheehy</strong> is the director of education at the Weisman Art Museum and teaches art history at the University of St. Thomas. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Flamingo in the Garden: American Yard Art and the Vernacular Landscape]]>
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    <![CDATA[Many Americans create fantasy tableaux in their yards and gardens using pink plastic flamingos, cement ducks, wooden wishing wells, electric Christmas lights, Halloween harvest figures, and a variety of other objects. Yet this aspect of American material culture-so common in our vernacular landscapes-has received limited scholarly attention. This study explains the origins of American yard art and examines its many social and aesthetic permutations and functions. Fieldwork and interviews conducted in four regions of the United States document a wide geographic range of yard art and reveal the commonalities and variations in its practices. By integrating contemporary fieldwork data with cultural history and iconographic analysis, this work builds an interpretive framework for an important kind of public display. The analysis also yields insight into the cultural role of the American home, relationships between public and private spaces, the persistence of the handmade object within a predominant commodified consumer culture, and the role of material culture in constructing, representing, and negotiating social categories. You'll never look at a pink flamingo in quite the same way again!]]>
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