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Simple Joys : The Folk Art of Jane Wooster Scott
Jane Wooster Scott
Hardcover - $17.95
An enchanting gift book that captures an idyllic slice of Americana
Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art : A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources
Betty-Carol Sellen
Paperback - $107.95
This is a guide to self-taught and outsider artists in the United States, also called folk artists, and to their work. Interest in this field is exploding and information on hundreds of artists and the places where their work may be viewed or purchas ...
The Shipcarvers' Art : Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
Ralph Sessions
Hardcover - $126.95
"Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and well-presented, "The Shipcarvers' Art" represents a major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century American visual culture. There is simply no other book out there that covers this mat ...
Art of the Ancestors : Antique North American Indian Art
George Everett Shaw
Hardcover - $99.95
This handsome book includes American Indian masterpieces ranging from clothing and ceremonial artifacts to weapons and cradles.
Gone Home : Southern Folk Gravestone Art
Jack Solomon
Paperback - $32.95
Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the names, lives and epitaphs of thousands of the deceased. The volume they now share with us is not a Book of the Dead, but a Book of Life. In the ...
Redesigning the World
Peter Stansky
Paperback - $40.95
Socialist, philosopher, and poet William Morris was at the center of the design renaissance of the 1880Us, not only because of his celebrated hostility to aspects of machine culture but because of his success as a designer and businessman whose work ...
Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts
John M. Vlach
Paperback - $71.95
Covering basketry, musical instruments, wood carving, quilting, pottery, boatbuilding, blacksmithing, architecture, and graveyard decoration, John Vlach seeks to trace and substantiate widespread African influences in the traditional arts and crafts ...
Defining Yongle : Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China
James C. Y. Watt
Paperback - $41.95
The Yongle Emperor (1403-1424) was considered the most powerful, effective, and extravagant ruler of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Major military campaigns and unprecedented maritime expeditions marked his reign. Yongle is also credited with moving t ...
Great Road Style : The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee
Betsy K. White
Hardcover - $92.95
Linked historically, culturally, and geographically, the counties that make up southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee are also connected by a shared decorative arts tradition. "Great Road Style," so called because of the region's historical ...