The American Family in the Twentieth Century John Sirjamaki

1954 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
Reuben Hill
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Family

The American Family in the Twentieth Century

1954 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Sheldon Stryker ◽  
John Sirjamaki
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Family

The American Family in the Twentieth Century.

1954 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 492
Author(s):  
Stuart A. Queen ◽  
John Sirjamaki
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Family

The American Family in the Twentieth Century

1954 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Margaret Mary Toole ◽  
John Sirjamaki
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Family

Prologue

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jodi Eichler-Levine
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Family ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
American Judaism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Emotional Resonance ◽  
Tactile Memory

The prologue explores the author’s personal connection with crafting through the heirlooms her own Jewish American family has passed down in the twentieth century, including a matzah cover and a wedding canopy. Using her grandmother’s kitschy mid-twentieth century needlepoint of a rabbi as a starting point, it lays out emotional resonance carried by tactility. Tactile memory is a central part of American Judaism.

Representing the Ideal American Family

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-142
Author(s):  
Cynthia Culver Prescott
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
American Family ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Pioneer Women ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Frontier Women

Communities throughout the U.S. West erected monuments to white pioneer mothers in the late 1920s. While other western sculptors’ interest in frontier women soon faded, Avard Fairbanks continued to produce prominent public monuments to pioneer women and families for the next fifty years. Fairbanks’s pioneer monuments provide a valuable case study for examining the ways in which changing social norms influenced public monuments over the course of the twentieth century. Focusing on Avard Fairbanks’s fifty years of pioneer-themed monuments highlights the sculptor’s role in transforming idealized images of settler families from objects of purely regional memory into a national American family ideal.

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