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Author: Kristin G. Congdon
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2012-03-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313349363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a collection of essays on the life and work of numerous individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. This work is organized by geographical region to help make connections visible.
Author: Thomas H. Geismar
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780810963658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work presents a private collection of American folk art sculpture. Weather vanes are the focus of this collection of mostly 19th-century pieces, but included are ship's figureheads, decoys, and a painting of a stalking tiger, reproduced in a four-page gatefold. All the sculpture has been specially photographed for this book, with many pieces shown in double page spreads and from multiple perspectives.
Author: Museum of American Folk Art
Publisher:
Published: 2001-12
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Combining new research, never-before-published color photographs, and detailed entries on each artwork, American Radiance is indispensable for students and collectors, yet broadly appealing to the folk art market. The book celebrates the opening of the Museum's new building, where the Esmerian Collection is the widely publicized inaugural exhibition."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Paul Arnett
Publisher: Tinwood Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780965376600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive overview of an important genre of American art, Souls Grown Deep explores the visual-arts genius of the black South. This first work in a multivolume study introduces 40 African-American self-taught artists, who, without significant formal training, often employ the most unpretentious and unlikely materials. Like blues and jazz artists, they create powerful statements amplifying the call for freedom and vision.
Author: Kristin G. Congdon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-03-19
Total Pages: 789
ISBN-13: 0313349371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFolk 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.
Author: Clarence Pearson Hornung
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marion J. Nelson
Publisher: Migration of a Tradition
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most comprehensive study of such varied factors as art historical traditions and influences, the social and economic background that encouraged each of these arts, Norwegian symbolism, traditional costume, and emigration to the United States and its influence on the arts. An informative and practical discussion of Norwegian folk art collections is also included.
Author: Elsa Weiner Longhauser
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday the work of so-called "outsider" artists is receiving unprecedented attention. This major critical appraisal of America's 20th-century self-taught artists coincides with a major 1998 traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. While some of these artists have received critical recognition, others remain virtually unknown, following their muse regardless. 150 color images.
Author: Milwaukee Art Museum
Publisher: Milwaukee Art Museum
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Milwaukee Art Museum's collection of American folk art reflects the art worlds' increasing interest in the genre. A major part of the collection comes from Michael and Julie Hall's extensive collection, acquired by the museum in the early 1990s. Parts of the collection went on nation-wide tour during 1993-1995, with this volume clearly explaining the importance of the genre, the vision of the collectors, and the beauty of the pieces of art, all produced by self-taught artists. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Author: Judy Diephouse
Publisher: Northlight
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781581801170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautiful book shows how easy it is to depict folk art's quaint, picturesque scenery on everything from boxes to picnic baskets.
