Author: Marsha MacDowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Folk Art Study in Higher Education in North America
Author: Marsha MacDowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Author: Carol CrownPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607999
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.
Folk Arts in Education
Author: Marsha MacDowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic arts
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
HOW TO USE FOLKLORE IN THE CLASSROOM.
Craftsman of the Cumberlands
Author: Michael Owen JonesPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318391X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Why do people consider aesthetic qualities as well as utilitarian ones in the making of everyday objects? Why do they maintain traditions? What is the nature of their creative process? These are some of the larger questions addressed by Michael Owen Jones in his book on craftsmen in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Kentucky. Concentrating on the work of one man, woodworker and chairmaker Chester Cornett, Jones not only describes the tools and techniques employed by Cornett but also his aspirations and values. Cornett possessed a deep knowledge of his materials and a mastery of construction methods. Some of his chairs represent not objects of utility but aesthetic developments of the chair form. Cornett sought to cope with the problems of his life, Jones maintains; their massiveness provided a sense of security, the virtuosity of their design and construction, a feeling of self-esteem. Jones also compares other area craftsmen and their views about their work.
American Folk Art
Author: Catharine Elizabeth CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
American Folk Art [2 volumes]
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Author: Kristin G. CongdonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1433
Book Description
Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this collection of informative and thoroughly engaging essays. American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because many of the artists in both categories have a clear identity with their land and culture, the work is organized by geographical region and includes an essay on each region to help make connections visible. There is also an introductory essay on U.S. folk art as a whole. Those writing about folk art to date tend to view each artist as either traditional or innovative. One of the major contributions of this work is that it demonstrates that folk artists more often exhibit both traits; they are grounded in their cultural context and creative in the way they make work their own. Such insights expand the study of folk art even as they readjust readers' understanding of who folk artists are.
Humanities
Author: American Folk Art
Author: Simon J. BronnerPublisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
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