Sacred and profane : voice and vision in Southern self-taught art / edited by Carol Crown and Charles Russell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crown, Carol.

Russell, Charles, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outsider art--Southern States.

Outsider art.

Art, American--Southern States--20th century.

Art, American.

Art and religion--Southern States.

Art and religion.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Summary:

A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists

Contents:

Introduction / Carol Crown and Charles Russell

Self-taught art, the Bible, and southern creativity / Charles Reagan Wilson

Sacred spaces and mythmaking: a sociological perspective on southern environmental art / Frédéric Allamel

More than meets the eye: visions of the sacred in southern self-taught art / Carol Crown

The music of self-taught artist and evangelist Anderson Johnson / Ann Oppenheimer

Lacrimae rerum: Eddie Owens Martin's Pasaquan / Dorothy M. Joiner

George Andrews / Benny Andrews

Nellie Mae Rowe: multiple contexts, multiple meanings / Lee Kogan

A curious collaboration: Clementine Hunter's African house murals / Jessica Dallow

Clementine Hunter: chronicler of African American Catholicism / Cheryl Rivers

"It's about ideas": the art of Thornton Dial / Charles Russell

Reinventing Gee's bend quilts in the name of art / Sally Anne Duncan

Words and music: seeing Traylor in context / Susan M. Crawley

Bil Traylor and the construction of outsider objectivity / Jennifer P. Borum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-273) and index.

ISBN:

1578069165

9781578069163

OCLC:

68786785