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American Folk Art Canes

Author : George H. Meyer
Publisher : University of Washington Press and Sandringham Press and the Museum of American Folk Art, New York
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Folk Art Canes written by George H. Meyer and published by University of Washington Press and Sandringham Press and the Museum of American Folk Art, New York. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hand-carved canes are a part of America's culture and art, speaking to our rich national heritage and capacity for self-expression. As vehicles of personal communication and group identity, American folk art canes display images ranging from King Kong to depression-era bathing beauties, from boxer "Gentleman Jim" Corbett to an anonymous shoemaker, and from Civil War soldiers to Dolly Parton. Symbols of fraternal and military organizations also occupy the miniature world on the cane, as do representations of nature, from snakes swallowing frogs to bee-filled gardens. American Folk Art Canes: Personal Sculpture is the first comprehensive, scholarly book focusing on American folk canes and will be a foundation for future research in the field. Reproduced in full color, more than three hundred canes dating from the early nineteenth century to today disclose the complex cultural meanings, obscure individual histories, and light-hearted social commentaries of folk art walking sticks. Detailed, comparative, and historical photographs show the diverse styles, techniques, and themes used by the generations of American carvers who have mastered this expressive and utilitarian art form. Each illustration eloquently demonstrates the carvers' artistry in transforming a simple functional object into a work of art. The introduction and eight original essays by noted scholars examine the methods of dating canes, their sculptural and symbolic qualities, and the aesthetic character and history of Native American, African-American, Civil War, fraternal, and contemporary canes. Details of the canes' imagery, origins, and composition are given in an extensive documentation section. Color plates of relatedfolk art carvings, a selected bibliography, and a thorough index supplement the book.

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Encyclopedia of American Folk Art

Author : Gerard C. Wertkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135956154
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Folk Art written by Gerard C. Wertkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Containing more than 600 articles, this unique reference considers individual artists, schools, artistic, ethnic, and religious traditions, and heroes who have inspired folk art. An incomparable resource for general readers, students, and specialists, it will become essential for anyone researching American art, culture, and social history.

American Folk Art for Kids

Author : Richard Panchyk
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613741197
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book American Folk Art for Kids written by Richard Panchyk and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the natural folk art tendencies of children, who love to collect buttons, bottle caps, shells, and Popsicle sticks to create beautiful, imperfect art, this activity guide teaches kids about the history of this organic art and offers inspiration for them to create their own masterpieces. The full breadth of American folk art is surveyed, including painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and textiles from the 17th century through today. Making bubblegum wrapper chains, rag dolls, bottle cap sculptures, decoupage boxes, and folk paintings are just a few of the activities designed to bring out the artist in every child. Along the way kids learn about the lives of Americans throughout history and their casual relationships to everyday art as they cut stencils, sew needlepoint samplers, draw calligraphy birds, and design quilts. Important folk artists such as the last surviving Shakers, the legendary Grandma Moses, and the Reverend Howard Finster are also explored in sidebars throughout the book.

Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts

Author : William R. Ferris
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033438
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts written by William R. Ferris and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1983 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes

Author : Anthony Moss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538144964
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes written by Anthony Moss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of walking canes from around the world, dating from the distant past to the modern-day. The book presents a historical context on both practical and ceremonial usage. At the same time, specially shot pictures showcase the celebrated A&D Collection of canes, while enlightening prose demonstrates the cane's enduring relevance to society. More than just a mobility aid, the cane has held numerous offices of significance. From the staff of the legendary Monkey King in the classic Chinese Journey to the West, or the stylised crosiers carried by high-ranking prelates from the Roman Catholic church, to the truncheon wielded by Mr Punch in puppet shows, canes are embedded in the culture of almost every country around the globe. Roving the map with one hand and thumbing through history books with the other, A Virtual History of Walking Canes and Sticks seeks not only to introduce the collector to the diverse wealth of canes available but also to entertain the casual reader. Intermingled with over 800 full-colour pictures are descriptions of gadget canes for tradesmen, squirting canes for pranksters, and glamorous Art Nouveau canes for the dapper gentlemen of the '20s. Informative and meticulously researched, this book paves an accessible route into a niche subject while paying homage to our ongoing relationship with canes. This story stretches back as far as history itself.

Animals in American Folk Art

Author : Wendy Lavitt
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in American Folk Art written by Wendy Lavitt and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Folk Art [2 volumes]

Author : Kristin G. Congdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313349371
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis American Folk Art [2 volumes] by : Kristin G. Congdon

Download or read book American Folk Art [2 volumes] written by Kristin G. Congdon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

No Half Measures: A Life In Wine, Food And Travel

Author : Jeffrey Benson
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785077899
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book No Half Measures: A Life In Wine, Food And Travel written by Jeffrey Benson and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from Jeffrey Benson's first volume of travel diaries, One More for the Road, comes a second instalment, as one of the food and drink world's intrepid voyagers continues on his way. No Half Measures whisks the reader to the luxury resorts of the Indian Ocean, tasting cutting-edge cuisine and fine wines on five continents, and celebrates all the cultural diversity the world still has to offer. As before, Benson gives us both barrels of modern travel experience, the vintage and the vin ordinaire, the sublime and the ridiculous, in generous and richly evocative accounts of journeys among family and friends, wine students and superstar chefs. There are glorious gastronomic moments and glimpses of the splendour of the natural world, as well as comic interludes and the odd despairing grumble, all in the company of our witty and humane chaperone. Fasten your seat-belts: it's going to be a thoroughly enjoyable ride.

Carolina Folk

Author : McKissick Museum
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872499508
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Carolina Folk written by McKissick Museum and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies the Carolinas' contributions to Southern Folk traditions.

American Self-taught Art

Author : Florence Laffal
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Self-taught Art written by Florence Laffal and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-taught art (or outsider art or folk art) is made up of paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, outdoor constructions and other items created by people with little or no formal training who produce (or at least began by producing) art without regard to mainstream recognition or the marketplace. There are now several periodicals, numerous yearly auctions, and dozens of museums and galleries devoted to the field. This analysis of the art form in 20th century America begins by explaining the emergence of self-taught art, and introducing the reader to key aspects. The second chapter studies trends, by gender, race and region, and examines such issues as education, employment and the circumstances under which artists became active. The main body of the work consists of 1,319 biographies of artists--dates, location, origins, education, employment, style, media, themes and unusual characteristics. Another section deals with 44 categories of self-taught art including media (collage, painting, pottery, relief carving, sculpture, etc.); styles (abstract, rudimentary, surrealistic...); and themes (such as animals, death, humor, politics, religion, vehicles and words).

Fantastic Book of Canes, Pipes, and Walking Sticks, 3rd Edition

Author : Harry Ameredes
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607654032
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Book of Canes, Pipes, and Walking Sticks, 3rd Edition written by Harry Ameredes and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabulous pen and ink sketches showcase a wide variety of canes, staffs and pipes along with carving tips and notes.

This Is Our Home

Author : Whitney Nell Stewart
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book This Is Our Home written by Whitney Nell Stewart and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Yet even this reckoning obscures what these sites meant to so many forced to live and labor on them: plantations were Black homes as much as white. Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners' papers, Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners. By exploring the material remnants of the past, Stewart demonstrates how homemaking was a crucial part of the battle over slavery and freedom, a fight that continues today in consequential confrontations over who has the right to call this nation home.

Outsider, Self Taught, and Folk Art Annotated Bibliography

Author : Betty-Carol Sellen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsider, Self Taught, and Folk Art Annotated Bibliography written by Betty-Carol Sellen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,650 books and exhibition catalogs, periodical and newspaper articles, and films and videos about self-taught artists and their art.

American Craft

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Craft written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Self-Taught, Outsider and Folk Art

Author : Betty-Carol Sellen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662304X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Self-Taught, Outsider and Folk Art written by Betty-Carol Sellen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has changed in the world of self-taught art since the millennium. Many of the recognized "masters" have died and new artists have emerged. Many galleries have closed but few new ones have opened, as artists and dealers increasingly sell through websites and social media. The growth and popularity of auction houses have altered the relationship between artists and collectors. In its third edition, this book provides updated information on artists, galleries, museums, auctions, organizations and publications for both experienced and aspiring collectors of self-taught, outsider and folk art. Gallery and museum entries are organized geographically and alphabetically by state and city.

Wood

Author : Harvey Green
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201851
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Wood written by Harvey Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, authoritative look at a material that plays an essential role in human culture Wood has been a central part of human life throughout the world for thousands of years. In an intoxicating mix of science, history, and practical information, historian and woodworker Harvey Green considers this vital material's place on the planet. What makes one wood hard and one soft? How did we find it, tame it? Where does it fit into the histories of technology, architecture, and industrialization, of empire, exploration, and settlement? Spanning the surprising histories of the log cabin and Windsor chair, the deep truth about veneer, the role of wood in the American Revolution, the disappearance of the rain forests, the botany behind the baseball bat, and much more, Wood is a deep and satisfying look at one of our most treasured resources.