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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 23: Folk Art

By Charles Reagan Wilson , Carol Crown , Cheryl Rivers

Book information

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0807834424, 9780807834428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6352132 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
520\519
Time added
2015-07-06 19:04:22

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.

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