Books written by Karal Ann Marling

Graceland: Going Home with Elvis

Describes what Graceland, the home Elvis Presley built in Memphis, tells about the late singer's life and personality
Wall-to-wall America: A Cultural History of Post-office Murals in the Great Depression

Wall-to-wall America: A Cultural History of Post-office Murals in the Great Depression
Wall-to-wall America: Post Office Murals in the Great Depression

Margaret Mitchell's bestseller of 1936, Gone With the Wind, partially reversed the trend, although the crumbling walls of Tara that dominate the novel had a peculiarly contemporary resonance in 1936. Mitchell, of course, was an Atlanta ...
Merry Christmas! Celebrating America’s Greatest Holiday

Tom Patchett, genial Santa Claus of the Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California, first alerted me to the sheer volume of Christmas paper ephemera. M. Sue Kendall, independent scholar and Main Line flea-market maven, sent me books, ...
The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway

The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway
Old Glory: Unfurling History

Describes the histories and myths surrounding the flag of the United States of America from its revolutionary birth to the present day, and is lavishly illustrated from the archives of the Library of Congress.
Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses

His imagery for the 1897 edition of L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose was greatly admired in its day . More appealing still , however , was Maud Humphrey's chubby , rosy - lipped , curly - headed boy in blue slumbering on a bed of ...
Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape

The companion book to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's exhibition of the same name of America's scenic wonders captured by three of the greatest artists of the 19th century.
The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930

Sociologists , for instance , contrasted the productive , multifunctional family of the nineteenth century ( farming , fiddling , quiltmaking , barn - building , pie - baking pioneers ) with the modern edition , from which , after the ...
Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) is, without question, the best-loved artist in American history, and yet this is the first book to seriously assess his achievement. It offers penetrating and enlightening readings...
Looking North: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Illustrations : the Potlach Collection, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth

" "The sixteen artists who worked on the Mountie series between 1931 and 1970 were among the most famous commercial illustrators of their day. The first of these was Hal Foster, who later created the Prince Valiant comic strip.
As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s

From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked ...
Merry Christmas!

Using mass culture and media to explore the true meaning of Christmas in America, the author separates myth from practice, using lithographs, magazine fictioin, pictorial ads, news photos, cards, and movies to deconstruct the season.
As Seen on TV

Consider, for example, the GM Motorama. An offshoot of the old world's fair car exhibits and the annual luncheons Sloan held for business pals at New York's Waldorf-Astoria during National Auto Show Week, the first full-dress Motorama ...
Behind the Magic - 50 Years of Disneyland

He began as a Midwestern cartoonist with big dreams. As a successful, young Hollywood filmmaker, he imagined a new type of entertainment - a family park - where he could...
Ice: Great Moments in the History of Hard, Cold Water

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. ICE SWEET ICE Arnold , Shannon Jackson . Everybody Loves Ice Cream : The Whole Scoop on America's Favorite Treat . Cincinnati , OH : Emmis Books , 2004 . Ecott , Tim . Vanilla . New York : Grove Press , 2004 .
The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway

Heavily illustrated, this book takes the reader on the road to examine these treasures and all that they represent.
Rockwell

From prom scenes to Thanksgiving spreads, returning servicemen to smiling boy scouts, the works of Norman Rockwell are imbued with optimism, patriotism, community, and family.
Blue Ribbon: A Social and Pictorial History of the Minnesota State Fair

Covers everything from prize animals to fair architecture to speeches to Pronto Pups.
Debutante: Rites and Regalia of American Debdom

It is an institution that seems almost hopelessly out of date, a social relic of bygone times. The very word "debutante" evokes images of prim, poised beauty, expensive gowns, and...