Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40 (Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest)

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Summary: Enhanced with 131 color and b/w photographs
Review: Pots Of Promise: Mexicans And Pottery At Hull-House 1920-40 is the result of the painstaking editorial efforts of Cherly R. Ganz (curator nd desingers of the "Pots of Promise: Mexicans, Reformers, and the Hull-House Kilns" exhibition for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum) and Vicki L. Ruiz (Professor of History and Chicano/Latino studies, University of California - Irvine) to provide contemporary readers with an descritive survey and history of the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns during the 1920s and the 1930s with a particular emphasis on the Mexican communit in the Hull-House 'colonia" -- Chicago's largets Mexican settlement. Enhanced with 131 color and b/w photographs, as well as four informative essays; Pots Of Promise launches the Latinos in Chicago and the Midest" series from the University of Illinois Press and will prove to be a welcome addition to American Latino Studies and Art History Studies library collections and supplemental reading lists.

Rating:
Summary: Enhanced with 131 color and b/w photographs
Review: Pots Of Promise: Mexicans And Pottery At Hull-House 1920-40 is the result of the painstaking editorial efforts of Cherly R. Ganz (curator nd desingers of the "Pots of Promise: Mexicans, Reformers, and the Hull-House Kilns" exhibition for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum) and Vicki L. Ruiz (Professor of History and Chicano/Latino studies, University of California - Irvine) to provide contemporary readers with an descritive survey and history of the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns during the 1920s and the 1930s with a particular emphasis on the Mexican communit in the Hull-House 'colonia" -- Chicago's largets Mexican settlement. Enhanced with 131 color and b/w photographs, as well as four informative essays; Pots Of Promise launches the Latinos in Chicago and the Midest" series from the University of Illinois Press and will prove to be a welcome addition to American Latino Studies and Art History Studies library collections and supplemental reading lists.