The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Folk Art Volume 23: Volume 23: Folk Art - Softcover

 
9780807871744: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Folk Art Volume 23: Volume 23: Folk Art
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ISBN 10: 0807871745 ISBN 13: 9780807871744
Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Carol Crown is First Tennessee Professor of Art History at the University of Memphis, USA and editor of Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South.

Cheryl Rivers, an independent scholar living in Brooklyn, New York, USA has taught numerous courses at the Folk Art Institute, American Folk Art Museum and is editor of Donald Mitchell: Right Here, Right Now.

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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.

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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.

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Publisher
University North Carolina Pr
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807871745
ISBN 13 
9780807871744
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
520
Editor
Wilson Charles Reagan

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