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Hardcover Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture Book

ISBN: 080782836X

ISBN13: 9780807828366

Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture

In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture. In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the...

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