Faith and transformation : votive offerings and amulets from the Alexander Girard collection / edited by Doris Francis ; collection photographs by Paul Smutko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Girard, Alexander.

Francis, Doris, 1940-

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.).

Amulets--Exhibitions.

Amulets.

Votive offerings--Exhibitions.

Votive offerings.

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)--Exhibitions.

Girard, Alexander.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe, N.M. : Museum of International Folk Art : Museum of New Mexico Press, [2007]

Contents:

Alexander Girard: designer and folk art collector / Doris Francis

Introduction: in the eye of the beholder / Doris Francis

Mexico / Stanley Brandes ... [et al.]

Guatemala / Jonathan Williams and Barbara Mauldin

Puerto Rico / Teodoro Vidal

Brazil / Kathleen O'Connor

Peru and Bolivia / Giuliana Borea Labarthe, Jonathan Williams and Barbara Mauldin

Spain / Edward F. Stanton

Italy / Francesco Faeta

Byzantium / Jacquelyn Tuerk

Greece / Jill Dubisch

Poland / Hubert Czachowski

Morocco / Mohamed Lahbib Nouhi

West Africa / Allen F. Roberts, Wyatt MacGaffey

Ethiopia / Peri M. Klemm

Egypt / Earle Waugh

Lebanon and Syria / Earle Waugh

Turkey / Hande Birkalan-Gedik

Iran / Parviz Tanavoli and Venetia Porter

Central Asia / Layla S. Diba

Pakistan / Kate Fitz Gibbon and Andrew Hale

India / Ali Asani, Cynthia Packert Atherton, Doris Francis

Sri Lanka / Gananath Obeyesekere

Burma (Myanmar) / Carrie Haley

Japan / Tamara J. Tjardes.

Notes:

Collection housed at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-148).

ISBN:

9780890135044

0890135045

OCLC:

145431689