Books written by John Michael Vlach
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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Interviews with former slaves and photographs and architectural drawings present an idea of the role Blacks played in the antebellum South
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Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
Courtesy of the Louisiana State University Museum of Art Gift of the Friends of LSU Museum of Art and Mrs. Ben Hamilton in memory of her mother , Mrs. Tela Meier crop , Color lithograph , 21 x 30 in .
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By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife
Works like Eugene D. Genovese's Roll , Jordan , Roll , Peter H. Wood's Black Majority , and Lawrence W. Levine's Black Culture and Black Consciousnessall award - winning books — make extensive use of either the ex - slave narratives or ...
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Barns
... 8-032 , 8-071 , 8-072 , 8-073 Palladian design , 386 , 5-089 Panhill , Samuel , 5-057 Pearson , Elmer R. ( ph . ) , 2-005 , 2-018 , 2-019 , evolution of barn design , 17-18 , 23–24 , 28 , 96 Fayette County , 3-100 Lancaster County ...
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The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts
Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.
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By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife
By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife
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PLAIN PAINTERS PB
Offers a new approach to American folk art, suggests that folk artists were influenced by fine art, and attempts to describe the context and meaning of the paintings
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The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts: Basketry, Musical Instruments, Wood Carving, Quilting, Pottery, Boatbuilding, Blacksmithing, Architecture, Graveyard Decoration ; The...
The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts: Basketry, Musical Instruments, Wood Carving, Quilting, Pottery, Boatbuilding, Blacksmithing, Architecture, Graveyard Decoration ; The...
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Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture
Photographs of individual buildings, historic maps of the nation's agricultural expanse, and descriptions of the household furnishings of the Victorian middle class, the urban immigrant population, and the rural farmer's homestead complete ...
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Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art
"Offers a new approach to American folk art, suggests that folk artists were influenced by fine art, and attempts to describe the context and meaning of the paintings."--Google books.
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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Behind the Big Houses of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed...
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By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife
By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife
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The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
Although nineteenth-century American landscapes typically were painted from a high vantage point, looking down from above, southern landscapes that featured plantations diverged from this convention in telling ways. Portraits of...