| The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art Contributor(s): Crown, Carol (Editor), Rivers, Cheryl (Editor), Wilson, Charles Reagan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807871745 ISBN-13: 9780807871744 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Reference | Encyclopedias - Art | Reference |
| Dewey: 745.097 |
| LCCN: 2012473073 |
| Series: New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.4" W x 9.27" (1.66 lbs) 520 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 characterized 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Crown, Carol: - Carol Crown is First Tennessee Professor of Art History at the University of Memphis and editor of Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South.Rivers, Cheryl: - Cheryl Rivers, an independent scholar living in Brooklyn, New York, has taught numerous courses at the Folk Art Institute, American Folk Art Museum and is editor of Donald Mitchell: Right Here, Right Now.Wilson, Charles Reagan: - Charles Reagan Wilson is Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair in History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. |