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William Spratling, His Life and Art (Paperback)
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William Spratling, His Life and Art (Paperback)
Series: Southern Biography Series
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In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic
artist William Spratling (1900-1967), Taylor D. Littleton
reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of
the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary
silver designs, Spratling influenced an entire generation of
Mexican and American silversmiths and transformed the tiny village
of Taxco into the ""Florence of Mexico."" Littleton widens the
context of Spratling's popular reputation by examining the
formative periods in his life and art that preceded his brilliant
entrepreneurial experiment in the Las Delicias workshop in Taxco,
which left a permanent mark on Mexico's artistic orientation and
economic life. Spratling made a fortune manufacturing and designing
silver, but his true life's work was to conserve, redeem, and
interpret the ancient culture of his adopted country. He explained
for North American audiences the paintings of Mexico's modern
masters and earned distinction as a learned and early collector of
pre-Columbian art. Spratling and his workshop gradually became a
visible and culturally attractive link between a steady stream of
notable American visitors and the country they wanted to see and
experience. Spratling had the rare good fortune to witness his own
reputation - as one of the most admired Americans in Mexico -
assume legendary status before his death. William Spratling, His
Life and Art vividly reconstructs this richly diverse life whose
unique aesthetic legacy is but a part of its larger cultural
achievement of profoundly influencing Americans' attitudes toward a
civilisation different from their own.
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