American Material Culture and the Texas Experience :

American Material Culture and the Texas Experience : the David B. Warren Symposium. - Houston : Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, c2019. - xi, 155 p, : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.

This publication is based on papers delivered at the second David B. Warren Symposium, "American Material Culture and the Texas Experience, " presented by Bayou Bend and Gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on October 30-31, 2009. "Volume 2."

Directors' foreword / Gwendolyn H. Goffe and Bonnie A. Campbell -- Roots of Home : An Architectural Tourist in the South / Russell Versaci -- Romanticism Goes West : Nineteenth-Century Europena Painters in Texas / Sam Ratcliffe -- Fachwerk, Log, and Rock : German Texans' Houses / Kenneth Hafertepe -- Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore : Tara, Gone with the Wind, and the Southern Landscape Tradition / Maurie D. McInnis -- As God Has Made It : Painting the American Southwest before 1900 / Michael R. Grauer -- Contributors -- Photograph Credits.

"Five distinguished scholars place the pre-1900 material culture of Texas, the lower South, and the Southwest within a national and international context in this volume of papers presented at the second David B. Warren Symposium, 'American Material Culture and the Texas Experience'....The MFAH established the biennial symposium to honor David B. Warren, Boyou Bend's founding director emeritus."--Back cover.

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