![]() The exhibition is an evolving archive of American calamity over the last 150 years. This is precisely the American ideal that Carriage Trade’s excellent group show, Model Home (New York), After Wisconsin Death Trip disputes. These pastoral images are anchored in the time period before and after the Great Depression (1929-1939), fitted with narratives including first kisses, first drives, and picnics. These are the perennial images made popular by films, television shows, and politicians who harken back to a bygone America. The mother watches her husband and children from a kitchen window, toiling at baked goods with a smile from lips as red as the hood of her husband’s car. ![]() The father, donned in his weekend Gingham, customizes his sports car (it is often cherry-red and surely American - a Chevy or Ford). ![]() There subsists an idealized conception of suburban middle America that is utterly familiar: a blanched-white picket fence circumscribes a neatly manicured lawn. ![]()
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