Mountain Artisans - Appalachia
Author : Daniel Robbins
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1970-10
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ISBN : 9780911517286
Author : Daniel Robbins
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1970-10
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ISBN : 9780911517286
Author : Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Appalachian Region
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Author : Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Needlework
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Author : Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Alfred Allan Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Quilting
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2 copies located in Circulation.
Author : Elinor Lander Horwitz
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
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Gives a brief history of the folk culture and crafts in the Appalachian region and discusses their present-day revival by introducing contemporary craftsmen and their work.
Author : Ramona Lampell
Publisher : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
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An oversized (91/4x121/4") book with over 150 exquisite photographs displaying the works and techniques of 17 self-taught artists from the mountains between Virginia and Alabama. The sparse but well written text traces each artist's background and inspiration. Includes sculptors, painters, carvers, and basket weavers using materials from their environment. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Sam Venable
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781572330900
Hazel Pendley creates heirloom-quality quilts. Ed Ripley wraps bits of fur and feathers into trout flies the size of gnats. Edna Hartong still makes an item that has all but disappeared from the American scene: lye soap. All of these people, and many more like them, are Appalachians who work with their hands. Journalist Sam Venable and photographer Paul Efird spent four years combing the hills and hollows of Southern Appalachia to find these talented individuals and let them talk about their work. Mountain Hands is an intimate look at more than three dozen such craftspeople and their vocations. Venable and Efird encountered folks who pursue popular crafts, such as basketweaving and clockmaking. But they found practitioners of other trades--wallpaper hangers and rail splitters, beekeepers and gravediggers--whose work also depends upon dexterity and upon expressing a distinctive Appalachian way of life. Some are college educated, some can barely read and write; some have lived in these hills all their lives, others have only recently come to call them home. Yet each feels bound to the region through a deep sense of belonging, and each owes at least part of his or her livelihood to handwork. While most of us may think of working with one's hands as entering computer data, these individuals attest to the perseverance--and appeal--of more traditional ways. Mountain Hands is a celebration in words and photographs of gifted people who understand and appreciate the Appalachian heritage--and who live it every day. The Author: A fifth-generation southern Appalachian, Sam Venable is a newspaper columnist whose award-winning observations on daily life appear four times a week in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Venable has spent most of his career roaming the highlands of his home state. He and his wife, Mary Ann, also a Tennessee native and UT graduate, live in a log house atop a wooded ridge on the outskirts of Knoxville. The Photographer: Paul Efird is a native of Rome, Georgia. He holds a degree in biology from Shorter College but has spent his professional career as a news photographer. After working for two newspapers in Georgia, he moved to Tennessee in 1990 and became a staff photographer for the News-Sentinel. Efird is an avid hiker, canoeist, and backpacker. He and his wife, Stephanie, live in Knoxville.
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Artisans
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Author : Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1980-08-26
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780385152723
First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. Volume six of the Foxfire series covers shoemaking, crafting toys and games, carving gourd banjos, song bows and wooden locks, creating a water-powered sawmill, and other fascinating topics.