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Kindred, Gayle (Fa 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

Kindred, Gayle (Fa 126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 126. Paper: "Mail or artwork?" written by Gayle Kindred for a Folk Studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes a collection and description of stylized mail received by students at Western Kentucky University, 1985-1986.


Russian Icons And American Money, 1928-1938, Wendy Salmond Jan 2009

Russian Icons And American Money, 1928-1938, Wendy Salmond

Art Faculty Articles and Research

The article explores the marketing tactics and consumer expectations with regards to icons released in the street markets and provincial cities of Soviet Russia and acquired by American collectors from 1928-1938. These icons, including those from Byzantium in the tenth century, were seen as cultural commodities during the Russian revolution and the subsequent socialist construction. The Soviet apparatus Antikvariat was tasked with appraising the icon collections held by the Gosmuzeifond or the State Museum Reserve for exports.