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22 9 Publication History Portions of the Introduction and chapter 1 appeared previously in “A Vernacular Recipe for Sculpture—Butter, Sugar, Corn,” American Art 24, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 23–26. Portions of chapters 1 and 2 were published in “Cereal Architecture: Late-NineteenthCentury Corn Palaces,” in Building Environments: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, volume 10, edited by Kenneth A. Breisch and Alison K. Hoagland, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005) 269–82; copyright 2005 by the University of Tennessee Press; reprinted with permission. Portions of chapter 2 appeared in “Turn-of-the-Century Midwestern Corn Festivals: Kiosks and Crop Art as American Icons,” ARRIS: The Journal of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians 14 (2003): 1–15. Portions of chapters 2, 5, and 7 were published in “Indians at the Corn Palace: Race and Reception at Two Midwestern Harvest Festivals,” Buildings and Landscapes 17, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 25–52. Portions of chapters 3 and 6 appeared in “Teddy Roosevelt, an American Icon in Butter,” Southeast College Art Conference Review 15, no. 5 (2010): 560–70; “Butter Cows and Butter Buildings: The History of an Unconventional Sculptural Medium,” Winterthur Portfolio 41, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 1–19; and “Caroline Shawk Brooks: The ‘Centennial Butter Sculptress ,’” Woman’s Art Journal 28, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2007): 29–36. This page intentionally left blank ...

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