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TITLE: Public Markets
SPEAKER: Helen Tangiers
EVENT DATE: 12/03/2008
RUNNING TIME: 54 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Public markets, with their small vendors selling locally-grown food and locally-made crafts, accentuate the qualities of a town and help build a sense of community. Helen Tangires, author of "Public Markets," discussed her book, which is a richly illustrated compendium of the wide variety of architectural structures devoted to the urban marketplace. Drawn from the Library's unparalleled collections, more than 800 photographs, architectural drawings, maps and posters from around the world depict the many types of public markets: open-air street, enclosed market houses, central markets and wholesale terminal markets.
Speaker Biography: Helen Tangiers is the administrator of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She is also the author of "Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America" (2003) and a frequent contributor to books and journals. Tangiers holds a Ph.D. in American studies from George Washington University.