A shared legacy folk art in America : [accompanies the exhibition ... organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandra, Virginia; exhibition itinerary: American Folk Art Museum, New York, December 16, 2014 - March 8, 2015 ... The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, October 7 - December 31, 2017]
Acknowledgments / Lynn K. Rogerson ; Preface / Barbara Gordon ; A distinction without a difference: the art of American fold art / Richard Miller ; Uncommon women and the art of the common man: the role of women in the discovery, promotion, and collecting of American folk art / Avis Berman ; Pennsyl...
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Alexandria, Virginia, New York
Art Services International
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Acknowledgments / Lynn K. Rogerson ; Preface / Barbara Gordon ; A distinction without a difference: the art of American fold art / Richard Miller ; Uncommon women and the art of the common man: the role of women in the discovery, promotion, and collecting of American folk art / Avis Berman ; Pennsylvania, German, and beyond / Cynthia G. Falk and Lisa Minardi ; Rising to the dignity of art: figure carving as pubic sculpture in nineteenth-century America / Ralph Sessions ; Catalogue ; Selected bibliography ; Index An unparalleled introduction to American folk art, accompanying a major traveling exhibition. A handsome and insightful survey of American folk art, this book includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, and household objects made by untrained or minimally trained folk artists in New England, the Midwest, and the South between 1800 and the 1920s. This richly illustrated volume includes rare and very fine portraits, radiant still lives and landscapes, a mature version of The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, playful animal sculptures and trade signs, and ornately painted German American furniture. With newly researched texts by leading scholars, this publication makes an important contribution to the field |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-253) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 256 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780847843817 978-0-8478-4381-7 0847843815 0-8478-4381-5 9780883971598 978-0-88397-159-8 0883971593 0-88397-159-3 |