Author : Michael Owen Jones
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN :
Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.
Author : Kunliang Qiu
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Cultural property
ISBN :
Author : Heinz Adolf Mode
Publisher : Bombay : Taraporevala
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Folk art
ISBN :
Author : Chuck Rosenak
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
The definitive guide to the richly imaginative folk art of the Navajo. Witty polka-dotted chickens. Purple pickup trucks sculpted out of mud. A Navajo grandma riding an orange cardboard giraffe. For more than two decades, Chuck and Jan Rosenak have been avid collectors of unique pieces of Navajo folk art like this. Their collection, research, and writing have helped to define and illustrate an art form that ranges from wooden carvings of eerie three-headed skinwalkers to vibrant pictures painted on old bed sheets. This new edition of the Rosenaks' groundbreakingNavajo Folk Artis the essential guide to a comic, intensely creative, truly American art.
Author : Carmella Padilla
Publisher : Museum of New Mexico Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780989199209
This book invites readers to understand and invest in the living legacy of folk art as a way to participate in the human story of the handmade -- and to make a meaningful impact on lives world-wide. The Work of Art by Carmella Padilla (Available July, 2013) examines the role of folk artists in the twenty-first century, recognising their power as creative and socially responsible champions for global change, connection, and cultural sustainability. Through interviews with folk artists from Mali to Madagascar to Cuba, Peru, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and beyond, Padilla introduces us to individuals and communities who are using their handmade traditions to overcome poverty, gender inequity, environmental degradation, ethnic conflict, and limited opportunities for political, educational, and social advancement.
Author : Corinne P. Earnest
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780764309205
Having roots in medieval European decorated manuscript art, fraktur celebrate Pennsylvania German family events such as births, baptisms, and marriages. 230+ photographs present three centuries of American fraktur interwoven with insightful historical details, information on the making of fraktur, and techniques for their preservation and care. The colorful pages will delight and stimulate curiosity among historians, scholars, and all who appreciate art to explore the hidden treasures at the heart of these charming manuscripts.
Author : Teju Behan
Publisher : Tara Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789383145966
Folk singer and self-taught artist draws her incredible journey from rural poverty to a life in art.
Author : Maggie Holtzberg
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781558496408
Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalise deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, and Irish music and dance. This illustrated volume celebrates and shares the work of a wide array of these living artists.
Author : Alison Hilton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253327536
Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects within the settings in which folk artists worked -- the peasant household, the village, and the local market -- Alison Hilton discusses the principal media artists employed and the items they produced, from dippers and goblets to clothing and window frames. Emphasizing the balance between time-honored forms and techniques and the creativity of individual artists, the book explores how images and designs helped to form a Russian esthetic identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Abundantly illustrated with examples from Russian museums, Russian Folk Art is a treasure for anyone interested in Russian culture.
Author : James Glisson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300247565
Celebrating two collectors' passion for Americana and the window it provides into the everyday beauty of the past Becoming America offers a multifaceted view of one of the foremost collections of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and decorative art from the rural Northeast. Essays by leading specialists discuss the culture of furniture workshops, exuberant painted decoration, techniques of sewing and quilting, and poignant stories about the families depicted in the portraits. The collection itself includes Shaker boxes, a beaded Iroquois hat, embroidered samplers, metalwork, scrimshaw, handwoven rugs, ceramics, and a weather vane. The majority of these works have never before been published. With lively essays and profuse illustrations, this handsome volume brings to life the aesthetic of early Americans living in the countryside and is an essential exploration of the period's taste and style. Distributed for The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Exhibition Schedule: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA (October 22, 2016-ongoing)
