The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author: Carol Crown

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-06-03

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1469607999

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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. 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.

Outsider Art of the South
Outsider Art of the South

Author: Kathy Moses

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764307294

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An intimate glimpse into the lives and work of 34 self-taught artists. Over 400 color photos show a wide range of artwork that has been called Outsider, Visionary, and Folk. Whatever the labels, the work is passionate, religious, fantastic, heartrending, cryptic, naive, and compelling. What could be more exciting?

Becoming America
Becoming America

Author: James Glisson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300247565

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Celebrating two collectors' passion for Americana and the window it provides into the everyday beauty of the past Becoming America offers a multifaceted view of one of the foremost collections of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and decorative art from the rural Northeast. Essays by leading specialists discuss the culture of furniture workshops, exuberant painted decoration, techniques of sewing and quilting, and poignant stories about the families depicted in the portraits. The collection itself includes Shaker boxes, a beaded Iroquois hat, embroidered samplers, metalwork, scrimshaw, handwoven rugs, ceramics, and a weather vane. The majority of these works have never before been published. With lively essays and profuse illustrations, this handsome volume brings to life the aesthetic of early Americans living in the countryside and is an essential exploration of the period's taste and style. Distributed for The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Exhibition Schedule: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA (October 22, 2016-ongoing)

Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980
Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980

Author: Jane Livingston

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Forms from African and American popular arts, photojournalism, advertising, voodoo and the landscape reflect oral traditions of black culture: rural legends, popular history, Biblical stories, revivalism. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Art in the American South
Art in the American South

Author: Randolph Delehanty

Publisher:

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780807121009

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Featuring 250 full-color reproductions, a selection of works from the Ogden Collection of Southern Art--one of the world's finest--traces the evolution of southern art and culture and the region's artistic trends and movements. UP.

Helen LaFrance
Helen LaFrance

Author: Kathy Moses

Publisher: S&s Pub.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780615413143

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191).

Walks to the Paradise Garden
Walks to the Paradise Garden

Author: Phillip March Jones

Publisher: DAP Artbooks Editions

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781732848207

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"Walks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manuscript of the late American poet, photographer, publisher and bon viveur Jonathan Williams (1929-2008). This book chronicles Williams' road trips across the Southern United States with photographers Guy Mendes and Roger Manley in search of the most authentic and outlandish artists the South had to offer. Williams describes the project thus: 'The people and places in Walks to the Paradise Garden exist along the blue highways of America.... We have traveled many thousands of miles, together and separately, to document what tickled us, what moved us, and what (sometimes) appalled us.' The majority of these road trips took place in the 1980s, a pivotal decade in the development of Southern 'yard shows' and many of the artists are now featured in major institutions. This book, however, chronicles them at the outset of their careers and provides essential context for their inclusion in the art historical canon"--Back cover.

Testimony
Testimony

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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This book and its accompanying exhibition, organized by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Exhibitions International, present an extraordinary collection of contemporary work that serves as testimony to the continuing struggle for social justice, cultural identity, and spiritual and personal fulfillment experienced by Southern African Americans.".