The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art
ISBN-10
1469607999
ISBN-13
9781469607993
Series
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Category
Reference
Pages
520
Language
English
Published
2013-06-03
Publisher
UNC Press Books
Authors
Carol Crown, Charles Reagan Wilson, Cheryl Rivers

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.

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