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Subject(s)

• Art patronage—Washington (State)—Seattle [Browse]
• Civic improvement—Washington (State)—Seattle [Browse]
• Allied Arts of Seattle, Inc [Browse]

Illustrator

• Schreiber, Roger [Browse]

Photographer

• Schreiber, Roger [Browse]

Designer

• Eykemans, Thomas [Browse]

Type designer

• del Peral, Juan Pablo [Browse]

Summary note

In the 1950s, the city of Seattle began a transformation from an insular, provincial outpost to a vibrant and cosmopolitan cultural center. As veteran Seattle journalist R. M. Campbell illustrates in Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape, this transformation was catalyzed in part by the efforts of a group of civic arts boosters originally known as “The Beer and Culture Society.” This “merry band” of lawyers, architects, writers, designers, and university professors, eventually known as Allied Arts of Seattle, lobbied for public funding for the arts, helped avert the demolition of Pike Place Market, and were involved in a wide range of crusades and campaigns in support of historic preservation, cultural institutions, and urban livability.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Allied Arts of Seattle Timeline; Introduction; Chapter 1 / Alice Rooney; Chapter 2 / Pike Place Market, One of the Great Civic Battles That Helped Shape Seattle; Chapter 3 / Victor Steinbrueck; Chapter 4 / Seattle's Engagement with Historic Preservation; Chapter 5 / Betty Bowen; Chapter 6 / Preserving Pioneer Square; Chapter 7 / Fred Bassetti; Chapter 8 / Marching to the World's Fair and Seattle Center; Chapter 9 / Robert Jackson Block; Chapter 10 / Creating Stable Arts Organizations; Chapter 11 / Peggy Golberg
• Chapter 12 / Festivals, Publications, Exhibitions, Concerts, and a Miscellany of ProjectsChapter 13 / Paul E. S. Schell; Chapter 14 / Art Funded by the Public Purse; Chapter 15 / Jerry Thonn; Chapter 16 / Fighting to Regulate Billboards; Chapter 17 / Mary B. Coney; Chapter 18 / The Campaign to Bury Utility Wires; Chapter 19 / Llewelyn G. Pritchard; Chapter 20 / Allied Arts' Embrace of the Urban Environment; Chapter 21 / Margaret Pageler; Epilogue; Patrons; Selected Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 9780295805382
• 0295805382

OCLC

• 897814545
• 900885870

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