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Grant Wood: American Gothic : 1000-piece Jigsaw Puzzles by Flame Tree Studio

Name: Grant Wood: American Gothic : 1000-piece Jigsaw Puzzles by Flame Tree Studio
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SKU: 9781786644916
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Grant Wood: American Gothic : 1000-piece Jigsaw Puzzles by Flame Tree Studio

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Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with a masterpiece of modern American Art, American Gothic by Grant Wood. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years.

Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Now includes an A4 poster for reference.

Grant Wood's image of two stoic Iowa citizens installed in front of their gothic-hinted home has become a classic of modern American art. Modelled by Wood's daughter and a local dentist, the painting offers a defiant statement of prosaic regionalism in a cultural world then dominated by the modernist tendencies of Europe and Russia, a reposte perhaps to the expressive works of Picasso, Kandinsky and their fellows. The folk art of American Gothic presents a familiar world of local history and imbues it with echoes of Old West photography, with proud owners standing awkwardly in front of their pioneer homesteads.

Wood, though, appears subtly to undermine the simplicity of the image with darker implications of the gothic window, the tricorn rake, and the severe expressions of the protagonists, which draw the viewer into the more enigmatic world of the long, dark nights of the American gothic countryside.

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Dimensions: 256 x 257 x 48 (mm)
Publish Date: 9 Mar 2017
ISBN: 9781786644916

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Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing