Studies in Traditional American Crafts
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Handicraft
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Handicraft
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Author : Jo Lauria
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0307346471
Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft
Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820312339
Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Michael Johnson
Publisher : Firefly Books Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781554079025
"Details how Native American culture evolved, the artifacts produced on the continent and the ways they were made, and the techniques of decoration and embellishment that utilized a variety of disparate natural commodities that depended on geographical necessity and abundance"--Jacket flap.
Author : Glenn Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1635574595
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there-from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's “maker movement.” From Mother Jones to Rosie the Riveter. From Betsy Ross to Rosa Parks. From suffrage banners to the AIDS Quilt. Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanship has often been a site of resistance for oppressed people, such as enslaved African-Americans whose skilled labor might confer hard-won agency under bondage, or the Native American makers who adapted traditional arts into statements of modernity. Theirs are among the array of memorable portraits of Americans both celebrated and unfamiliar in this richly peopled book. As Adamson argues, these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. From the beginning, America had to be-and still remains to be-crafted.
Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher :
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0190840617
The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters explore the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.
Author : Lucy Davies
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500277980
"Lucy Davies and Mo Fini have distilled the essence of their extensive research into the creative traditions of this vast area, and also include invaluable advice. With the aid of special and often spectacular - photography, they examine all the main media: pottery, wonderfully simple and utilitarian or formed in complex and ritualistic shapes, jewelry and metalwork in a multiplicity of forms, the arts of weaving plant fibre - sombreros and panamas, bags and baskets; the ancient textile tradition of the Wayuu. Painting on clay, leather and glass; wood carving and decoration of dried gourds; and extraordinary crafts such as figuras de masapan, colourful imaginative bread dough figures."--BOOK COVER.
Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761991601
The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of material culture.
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521365598
This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.