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A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America
Cynthia G Falk
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Description for A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America
Hardcover. An unparalleled introduction to American folk art, accompanying a major traveling exhibition. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 228 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1600.
An unparalleled introduction to American folk art, accompanying a major traveling exhibition. A handsome and insightful survey of American folk art, this book includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, and household objects made by untrained-or minimally trained-folk artists in New England, the Midwest, and the South between 1800 and the 1920s. This richly illustrated volume includes rare and very fine portraits, radiant still lifes and landscapes, a mature version of The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, playful animal sculptures and trade signs, and ornately painted German American furniture. With newly researched texts by leading scholars, this publication makes an important contribution ... Read more
An unparalleled introduction to American folk art, accompanying a major traveling exhibition. A handsome and insightful survey of American folk art, this book includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, and household objects made by untrained-or minimally trained-folk artists in New England, the Midwest, and the South between 1800 and the 1920s. This richly illustrated volume includes rare and very fine portraits, radiant still lifes and landscapes, a mature version of The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, playful animal sculptures and trade signs, and ornately painted German American furniture. With newly researched texts by leading scholars, this publication makes an important contribution ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1600g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847843817
SKU
V9780847843817
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Ref
99-15
About Cynthia G Falk
Barbara L. Gordon is a folk art collector and trustee of the American Folk Art Museum, New York. Richard Miller is an independent curator, formerly at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, VA. Avis Berman is an independent art historian based in New York. Cynthia G. Falk is professor of material culture at Cooperstown Graduate Program, State ... Read more
Reviews for A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America
"The message of the introductory essay by Richard Miller, a former curator at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, is that the complete story of American art has not been told because folk art, the vernacular art of the common man, has been ignored by art historians and relegated to the last galleries in museums after ... Read more