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Everyday Genius : Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity
Gary Alan Fine
Paperback - $54.95
From Henry Darger's elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the Reverend Howard Finster, the work of outsider artists has achieved unique status in the art world. Celebrated for their lack of traditional traini ...
Turkish Traditional Art Today
Henry Glassie
Hardcover - $191.95
Turkish Traditional Art Today presents the living arts and artists of Turkey. It is simultaneously an ethnographic inquiry into the nature of art, an introduction to modern Turkey, and a model study of folk art, combining the theories of folklore, an ...
Mingering Mike
Dori Hadar
Paperback - $39.95
One cold December morning, Dori Hadar DJ by night, criminal investigator by day was digging through crates of records at a flea market in Washington, D.C. There he stumbled into the elaborate world of Mingering Mike a soul superstar of the 1960s and ...
Moving Rooms : The Trade in Architectural Salvages
John Harris
Hardcover - $114.95
Since at least Tudor times there have been architectural salvages: panelling, chimney pieces, doorways, or any fixtures and fittings might be removed from an old interior to be replaced by more fashionable ones. Not surprisingly a trade developed and ...
Mary Black's Family Quilts : Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life
Laurel Horton
Hardcover - $86.95
Mary Black's Family Quilts utilizes a remarkable collection of sixteen quilts to tell the story of a family through six generations and to document with scholarly and aesthetic insights the material behaviors associated with quilting traditions. The ...
