caa a22 4500 386309833 CHVBK 20180307111541.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006761 doi S0361233300006761 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006761 Whiting Cécile American Heroes and Invading Barbarians: The Regionalist Response to Fascism [Elektronische Daten] [Cécile Whiting] The characteristics that contributed in the 1930s to the fame of A Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry, the three leaders of the Regionalist art movement, were the same that led to their being condemned as Fascists in the art criticism of the 1940s. Despite differences in their artistic styles, all three artists based their paintings in the 1930s on the life and land of specific locales in the Middle West. Each artist became associated with a particular region: Wood with Iowa, Benton with Missouri, and Curry with Kansas and later with Wisconsin. In their effort to celebrate the folk and tradition of these American regions, these artists relied heavily upon figurative styles and anecdotal narratives. They eradicated from their paintings the modernist styles such as Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism with which they had experimented in the 1910s and 1920s. Modernism, they now believed, was a difficult language, inaccessible to the ordinary public. Instead, these artists embraced a plain-speaking, folksy pictorial rhetoric. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 295-324 0361-2333 13<295 1988 13 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006761 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006761 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Whiting Cécile NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 295-324 0361-2333 13<295 1988 13 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge