Wall-to-wall America: Post Office Murals in the Great Depression
- ISBN-10
- 0816636737
- ISBN-13
- 9780816636730
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- U of Minnesota Press
- Author
- Karal Ann Marling
Description
Margaret Mitchell's bestseller of 1936, Gone With the Wind, partially reversed the trend, although the crumbling walls of Tara that dominate the novel had a peculiarly contemporary resonance in 1936. Mitchell, of course, was an Atlanta ...
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