Download or read book Discovering American Folk Art written by Cynthia V. A. Schaffner and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1991 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American crafts from colonial times to the present by showing examples of items used in play, the kitchen, and school from the collection of the Museum of Folk Art.
Download or read book Contemporary American Folk Art written by Chuck Rosenak and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the new or seasoned collector, this groundbreaking guide reveals how to evaluate contemporary American folk art as well as where to see it, buy it, and what to spend on it. The highly informative text is organized by region and features more than 181 biographies of both new and established artists. Color photos of more than 155 works as well as 44 black-and-white portraits of the artists are included.
Download or read book American Folk Art Quilts written by Maggi McCormick Gordon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Quilts! Beautiful antique quilts and a workbook of patterns come together in this lavish photography book for quilters. The more than 30 featured quilts from the Wisconsin State Historical Society collection are displayed in period rooms at Old World Wisconsin, the Society's outdoor museum of German and Scandinavian farmhouses. Patterns and block layouts are provided for replicating each of the original quilts, and after seeing each of them in a true historical context, home sewers will be inspired to create their own versions.
Download or read book Discovering Ellis Ruley written by Glenn Robert Smith and published by Crown. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first published record of the work, life, and mysterious death of Ellis Ruley. Includes all of his 62 known works, plus an introduction by the director of the Museum of American Folk Art. Full color and black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book Charming Village Scenes You Can Paint written by Catherine Holman and published by Northlight. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaint villages and old, interesting buildings are what interest Catherine Holman as an artist. In a series of projects she shows how to decorate a range of objects with acrylic paint to create nostalgic and beautiful pieces.'
Download or read book Discovering Folk Music written by Stephanie P. Ledgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ani DiFranco to Bob Dylan to Woodie Guthrie, American folk music comprises a truly diverse and rich tradition—one that's almost impossible to define in broad terms. This book explains why folk music is still highly relevant in the digital age. From indigenous music to Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing "This Land Is Your Land" side-by-side at the pre-inaugural concert for our first African American president, folk music has been at the center of America's history. Thomas Jefferson wooed his bride-to-be with fiddle playing. Stephen Foster captured the mood of our country in transition. The Carter Family adapted music from across the pond to Appalachia. Paul Robeson carried folk music of many lands to the world stage. Woody Guthrie's dust bowl ballads spoke to the common man, while Sixties protest music put folk on the map, following the Kingston Trio's hit, "Tom Dooley." Folk music has evolved with America's changing landscape, celebrating its multi-cultural traditions. From Irish step dancers to rap, parlor songs to Dixieland, blues to classical, Discovering Folk Music presents the genre as surprisingly diverse, every bit the product of our national melting pot. Demonstrating continuing relevance of folk music in our everyday lives, the book spotlights an amazing array of personalities, with special emphasis on the folk revival era when Dylan, Baez, Odetta, and Peter, Paul and Mary sang out. These and others influenced such contemporary performers as Shawn Colvin and Ani DiFranco. Those on today's "fringes of folk" scene continue to look to these deep roots while embracing alternative sounds. Included are interviews with such legendary artists as Janis Ian, Tom Paxton, and Jean Ritchie. Nora Guthrie, Woody's daughter, also weighs in. Discovering Folk Music is a ground-breaking look at 21st-century folk music in our rapidly changing digital world, family friendly while ripe for rediscovery by the Woodstock generation.
Download or read book Folk Art Landscapes for Every Season written by Judy Diephouse and published by Northlight. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book shows how easy it is to depict folk art's quaint, picturesque scenery on everything from boxes to picnic baskets.
Download or read book Warren Kimble American Folk Artist written by Warren Kimble and published by Signature Artist Series from L. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition, delight in the wit and whimsy of Americans foremost living folk artist, Warren Kimble as he takes you on a tour of his gallery and museum shop in historic Brandon, Vermont, Learn of his early years, family and career influences. Enjoy an environment where antiques and collectibles from thepast are part of everyday modern life. Be inspired by the history of simpler times that has influenced Warrens art. More than 200 full-color photos and illustrations Favorite art themes and images of animals, fruits and florals, landscapes, lighthouses and patriotism American folk craft projects inspired by Warren Kimbles artincludes rug hookingprojects and quilts Clear, step-by-step illustrations and instructions
Download or read book Self Taught Genius written by American Folk Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romancing the Folk written by Benjamin Filene and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo
Download or read book Simple Joys The American Folk Art of Jane Wooster Scott written by Jane Wooster Scott and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Wooster Scott's paintings celebrate American ideals from a simpler time. Featuring charming depictions of everyday scenes from the turn of the twentieth century, this collection includes a Sunday in New England, Autumn Hayride, and Quilts of Cape Cod, as well as quotes from famous Americans on the simple truths for leading a happy, rewarding life.
Download or read book Discovering Great Artists written by MaryAnn F. Kohl and published by Bright Ring Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discovering Great Artists" has 75 great artists featured in 110 amazingly fun and unique quality art appreciation activities for children. They will experience the styles and techniques of the great masters, from the Renaissance to the Present. A brief biography of each artist is included with a fully illustrated, child-tested art activity, featuring painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Includes such greats as Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali, Matisse, Pollock, and O'Keeffe. 1998 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, 2002 Practical Homeschooling Reader Award. Full "click-to" resource guide at Bright Ring's website to show each artist's most famous works. Some activity examples are: Da Vinci - Invention Art Michelangelo - Fresco Plaque Rembrandt - Shadowy Faces Monet - Dabble in Paint Degas - Resist in Motion Picasso- Fractured Friend Van Gogh - Starry Night Pollock - Action Splatter 1997 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, Education 2003 Practical Homeschooling Award, 3rd Place 2007 Practical Homeschooling Reader Award in the art appreciation category, 3rd place. 2009 Practical Homeschooling Reader Award in the art appreciation category,1st Place
Download or read book Discovering American Folklife written by Don Yoder and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book America s Art written by Theresa J. Slowik and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the reopening of the newly restored Smithsonian American Art Museum, a premier collection of American art features more than 250 reproductions of great works of American painting, sculpture, folk art, and photography, by such artists as Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Nam June Paik, and other luminaries.
Download or read book Canadian Folk Art to 1950 written by John A. Fleming and published by University of Alberta Press. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in more than 425 previously unpublished colour photographs of Canada's disappearing traditional folk art. The authors' discovery of distinctive objects from across Canada inspired them to re-classify folk art, and to analyze and interpret their examples in 17 thematic chapters. The "aesthetic of the everyday" of Canada's material heritage is presented through paintings and carvings, quilts and rugs, tables and trade signs-just to mention a few. These traditional art forms of diverse community groups express a decorative cultural identity, documented through the unique lens of photographer James A. Chambers. Historians, curators, collectors, designers, and dealers, as well as anyone who appreciates material culture, will want to have this collection in their libraries.
Download or read book Common Ground written by Philip Brookman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universal human experiences of struggle, transcendence and salvation are explored through painting, sculpture, folk art, photography and assemblage from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included are over 120 works by some of the greatest artists of the past 150 years.
