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American vernacular : new discoveries in folk, self-taught, and outsider sculpture / Frank Maresca, Roger Ricco ; introduction by Margit Rowell ; essay by Joseph Jacobs ; chapter introductions by Lyle Rexer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maresca, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk art--United States.
- Folk art.
- United States.
- Sculpture, American.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, 2002.
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's rich heritage of vernacular art out of the antiques arena and the specialty museum and into today's art world. "American Vernacular" presents hundreds of newly identified and never-before-published objects, from carnival figures to religious totems, from antique trade signs to spectacular examples of hand-carved canes. The book reveals the powerful strains of imagination that have shaped the American visual landscape and continue to nourish cutting-edge artists today.
- Notes:
- "A Bulfinch Press book."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0821227807
- OCLC:
- 48098474
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