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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Volume 23: Folk Art

Charles Reagan Wilson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press

Published:3rd Jun '13

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Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterised southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.

ISBN: 9780807871744

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 754g

520 pages

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