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Ward, Gerald W. R.

 
9780878465958: American Folk
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ISBN 10: 0878465952 ISBN 13: 9780878465958
Editorial: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, 2001

Sinopsis

Folk art has been part of the American idiom for nearly as long as America has been a nation. Today it remains one of the best-loved and most fervently collected forms of American art, a diverse and authentic vernacular expression. American Folk presents over sixty remarkable objects from one of the country's most prominent collections of folk art, many of them never before published. Included are paintings, carvings, textiles, prints, frakturs, furniture, and utilitarian objects, dating from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They range from such masterpieces as Erastus Salisbury Field's lush The Garden of Eden, E. L. George's surrealistic Child in a Rocking Chair, a complex, monumental quilt by the former slave Harriet Powers, and Wilhelm Schimmel's extraordinary carved animals, to a remarkable assortment of whirligigs, windmills, decorated chests, figurines, and even carousel dogs. The introductory essay by Gerald W. R. Ward discusses the elusive notion of "folk art" itself and presents the history of the collections' acquisition by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavishly illustrated in full color, American Folk is a vibrant and engaging introduction to one of our proudest cultural traditions.

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Folk art has been part of the American idiom for nearly as long as America has been a nation. Today it remains one of the best-loved and most fervently collected forms of American art, a diverse and authentic vernacular expression. American Folk presents over sixty remarkable objects from one of the country's most prominent collections of folk art, many of them never before published. Included are paintings, carvings, textiles, prints, frakturs, furniture, and utilitarian objects, dating from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They range from such masterpieces as Erastus Salisbury Field's lush The Garden of Eden, E. L. George's surrealistic Child in a Rocking Chair, a complex, monumental quilt by the former slave Harriet Powers, and Wilhelm Schimmel's extraordinary carved animals, to a remarkable assortment of whirligigs, windmills, decorated chests, figurines, and even carousel dogs. The introductory essay by Gerald W. R. Ward discusses the elusive notion of "folk art" itself and presents the history of the collections' acquisition by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavishly illustrated in full color, American Folk is a vibrant and engaging introduction to one of our proudest cultural traditions.

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Editorial
Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0878465952
ISBN 13 
9780878465958
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
144
Contacto del fabricante
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