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Exploring folk art : twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics / Michael Owen Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Michael Owen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--United States.
- Folklore.
- Material culture--United States.
- Material culture.
- Folk art--United States.
- Folk art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Utah State University, University Libraries 1987
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [1993], c1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Making things
- pt. 2. Sensory experiences
- pt. 3. Art at work
- pt. 4. Methods and concepts.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987, in series: American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780874213805
- 0874213800
- OCLC:
- 751695341
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