Folk art / Carol Crown & Cheryl Rivers, volume editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Crown, Carol.

Rivers, Cheryl, 1949-

Series:

New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 23.

The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk art--Southern States--History.

Folk art.

Art, American--Southern States--Encyclopedias.

Art, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

979-88-908835-0-6

1-4696-0799-9

1-4696-0800-6

OCLC:

845257795