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January 29, 2008
Ashley Callahan, ed. Georgia Inside and Out: Architecture, Landscape, and Decorative Arts. Proceedings from the Second Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2005. 176 pp.; 29 color ills.; 83 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (0915977567)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.8

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Georgia Inside and Out: Architecture, Landscape, and Decorative Arts follows the publication in 2003 of the First Henry D. Green Symposium—The Savannah River Valley to 1865: Fine Arts, Architecture, and Decorative Arts, also edited by Ashley Callahan. The symposium series is named in honor of Henry D. Green (1909–2003), who beginning in the 1930s established himself as a pioneer in the appreciation and study of Southern heritage, particularly Southern decorative arts. Under Callahan’s direction, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens brings a welcome focus on its home state. For decades the study of American art and architecture has seen the South long overshadowed by attention on the Northeast; and when the South is studied, communities in Virginia, along with Charleston and New Orleans, tend to command most scholars’ attention. This volume makes a valuable contribution to remedying the neglect of Georgia within studies of the Southern built environment. One of the benefits of a volume of published papers from a symposium is the opportunity to bring together topics typically treated in isolation—namely, the three areas of inquiry here: architecture, landscape, and decorative arts. The combination is refreshing, offering a strongly social perspective on the...