Download or read book American Folk Art Lovingly Collected written by Paul S. D'Ambrosio and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Folk written by Gerald W. R. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Abaigeal Duda, Pamela A. Parmal, Sue Welsh Reed, Gilian Shallcross, Carol Troyen, Gerald W.R. Ward.
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 1433 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.
Download or read book Treasures of American Folk Art written by Museum of American Folk Art and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1979 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Folk Art in Wood Metal and Stone written by Jean Lipman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carved and painted figures collected in this exceptional book are excellent examples of a wide-spread American folk art tradition that flourished from the middle of the 18th to the end of the 19th-century. 183 photographic illustrations, 4 reproduced in full-color on the covers. List of illustrations. Extensive bibliography.
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 1583 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.
Download or read book Darger written by Henry Darger and published by . This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Darger, who died in 1973, was a secretive Chicago janitor who has since been recognised as one of the supreme self-taught artists of the 20th century. This volume catalogues the American Folk Art Museum's recent acquisition of 37 Darger paintings.
Download or read book Folk Hearts written by Cynthia V. A. Schaffner and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776 1876 written by Jean Lipman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1977 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to folk art in America, based on the landmark Whitney Museum exhibit of 1974, illustrates more than 400 outstanding examples of American craft covering four major categories: painted, drawn, or stitched pictures; sculpture; architectural decoration; and decorated household objects. View page after page of extraordinary talent, evidenced in weathervanes, ship figureheads, tinware, toys, quilts, painted furniture, and more.
Download or read book Common Ground uncommon Vision written by Milwaukee Art Museum and published by Milwaukee Art Museum. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Download or read book Strange and Wonderful written by Steve Glueckert and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willem Volkersz first saw slides of Simon Rodia's folk art icon, Watts Towers, while he was an art student in Seattle, Washington. Watts Towers in Los Angeles is a group of structures as high as 99 feet made from scrap metal and concrete, with pottery shards and broken bottle fragments set into wet cement made by an Italian immigrant with a vision. Volkersz quickly developed an interest in equally exciting folk art environments and made pilgrimage to several of these sites, including Samuel P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden, Jesse Howard's Signs and Wonders and Hans Jorgensen's house decorated with farm tools. It was on a 1977 trip to Howard Finster's Paradise Garden that he and his wife, Diane, made a commitment to collecting and documenting the work by artists variously called contemporary folk artists, outsider artists, grassroots artists, or self-taught artists. Their collection now includes hundreds of pieces by American self-taught artists. The exhibition at the Fine Arts Center will have three areas of focus. First, it will represent a general survey of work in the collection with pieces by artists Howard Finster, Eddie O. Martin (aka St. EOM), Nellie Mae Rowe, and more. The exhibition will also include in-depth looks at the work of three artists featured prominently in the collection - Alva Gene Dexhimer, Robert E. Smith, and Mark Negus. - from Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center web page
Download or read book American Folk Art Buildings written by Steven Burke and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houses and schools, Ferris wheels and carousels, stores and factories, temples and theatres, gas stations and bridges, banks and garages, an ice rink and a bowling alley, Grant's Tomb and the Chicago Water Tower, the early structures of Queens NY, and churches in beautiful great number - the buildings of real or envisioned communities were rendered by largely anonymous persons from the late 19th century until about 1950. A remarkably unexplored area of our material culture, American folk art buildings reveal much about history, architecture, imagination, and clever craftsmanship. Hundreds of examples from the nation's largest collection show a remarkably rich range of structures. A first-ever explication of this American artifact conveys reasons, provenance, actual building referents, and apparent delight over decades of making even small a place of one's own.
Download or read book American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century written by Jay Johnson and published by New York : Rizzoli. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guide to American folk artists and their work spans a century of painters from Grandma Moses to Kathy Jakobsen and covers such media as sculpture, pottery, and textile creations.
Download or read book Contemporary American Folk Art written by Curtis L. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Folk Painting written by Mary Black and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the most comprehensive book ever published about the charming and enduringly interesting art of the self-taught American painter who worked in the small towns and countryside. Lavishly illustrated, with almost half of the full-page reproductions in color, it includes paintings from every major private and public collection of folk art in America, some of them well known, but with numerous oils and watercolors here illustrated for the first time." --publisher description.
Download or read book American Folk Art written by Kristin G. Congdon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 728 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"--
Download or read book A Kind of Archeology written by Elizabeth Stillinger and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated survey of a uniquely American design tradition
