Material Georgia, 1733-1900 : two decades of scholarship / edited by Dale L. Couch ; with contributions by Linda Chesnut, Daniel Chamberlin, Charlotte Crabtree, Ashlyn Davis, Jeff Finch, Jenny Garwood, Brenda Hornsby Heindl, Maryellen Higginbotham, Robert A. Leath, Joseph Litts, Keith M. McCurry, Caroline Rainey, James Rooks, and Kathleen Staples.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Couch, Dale L., editor.

Georgia Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decorative arts--Georgia--Exihbitions.

Decorative arts.

Georgia.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm

Place of Publication:

[Athens] : Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, [2019]

Summary:

"A generation ago, few people thought much of Georgia decorative arts, but 20 years of hard work by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia have changed that mistaken impression. The museum presented the first formal exhibition of Georgia decorative arts in 1975, and other museums in the state followed suit. In 2000, the museum opened the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. The center organizes a symposium held every other year to present and publish research on the decorative arts that is among the best attended events of its kind. To celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Green Center, the museum has organized the exhibition "Material Georgia 1733 - 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship" (on view November 16, 2019, through March 15, 2020), which this catalogue accompanies. This exhibition takes a comprehensive look at Georgia's diverse contributions to early decorative arts and summarizes the scholarship that has been done in the 20 years since the Green Center's founding. It focuses on revealing new discoveries made in the field, pointing a way forward and making the case Georgia can hold its own against any other state in terms of the quality of its decorative arts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Refined reflections : Georgia silver / Charlotte Crabtree

A sideboard by James Alexander / Robert A. Leath

Reeds and panels : a Gustavian style in the lower Southern Piedmont? / Dale L. Couch and Keith M. McCurry

Gullah-Geechee baskets : forms of resistance and endurance / Daniel Chamberlin.

Notes:

"Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, November 16, 2019-March 15, 2020."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-233).

ISBN:

9781946657114

1946657115

OCLC:

1127068802