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In Small Wonder: Worlds in a Box, David Levinthal takes as his subject a remarkable series of 1950s playsets manufactured by master toymakers Louis Marx and T. Cohn.

As a reflection of the obsessive play of the 1950s and the current nostalgia for such items, Levinthal's tabletop photography allows the reader a bird's-eye view of imaginary tableaux - Legionnaire Captain Gallant in the desert, Fort Apache and the Wild West, boy scouts camping in the woods, and travelers making a stop at a roadside Howard Johnson's. Playset vignettes are like stills from a movie of American popular culture's collective unconscious.

In the book's introduction, David Corey explores the history of playsets and their effect on American children in the 1950s.

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National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Language
English
Pages
160

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Subjects
Artistic Photography, Toys, Toys in art, History, New York Times reviewed, Miniature objects
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David Levinthal
Places
United States
Times
20th century

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Small wonder: worlds in a box
1996, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
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David Levinthal: Small Wonders (American Scene (Washington, D.C.), 4,)
November 2, 1994, D.A.P./National Museum of Amercian Art
Hardcover in English
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Washington, D.C, New York, N.Y
Series
American scene ;, 4, American scene (Washington, D.C.) ;, 4.

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779/.968872
Library of Congress
TR654 .L45916 1996, TR654.L45916 1996

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160 p. :
Number of pages
160

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OL792790M
ISBN 10
1881616398
LCCN
95025368
OCLC/WorldCat
33104758
Library Thing
1560101
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1604/9781881616399
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1033352

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