Contemporary American Folk Artists

Author : Chuck Rosenak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558598973
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Folk Art written by Chuck Rosenak and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the new or seasoned collector, this groundbreaking guide reveals how to evaluate contemporary American folk art as well as where to see it, buy it, and what to spend on it. The highly informative text is organized by region and features more than 181 biographies of both new and established artists. Color photos of more than 155 works as well as 44 black-and-white portraits of the artists are included.

Author : Elinor Lander Horwitz
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9780397316274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Folk Artists written by Elinor Lander Horwitz and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly discusses the lives and works of twenty-two American folk painters, carvers, and environmentalists.

Author : Joy Laforme
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1633224643
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Art Fusion: Americana written by Joy Laforme and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Charles Wysocki, Mary Engelbreit, Grandma Moses, and folk art in general will fall in love with this guide to painting, organized by seasons. Featuring projects that instruct artists of all skill levels how to draw and paint subjects that include quaint homes, pretty patterns, colorful gardens, picturesque farms, beautiful birds, and textured florals, this book features American-themed folk art infused with a modern twist. Beginning with an overview of what folk art is, followed by introductory topics like color, tools and materials, and drawing and painting techniques, Folk Art Fusion: Americana also includes sixteen simple step-by-step projects done in approachable and popular mediums. Rounding out the book is a gallery of folk-art pieces sure to inspire lovers of all things Americana. Simultaneously fresh and nostalgic, Folk Art Fusion: Americana draws on America’s rich artistic tradition and heritage and provides a fun, accessible take on creating beloved scenes from the heartland.

Author : Herbert Waide Hemphill
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century American Folk Art and Artists written by Herbert Waide Hemphill and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1974 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys paintings, sculptures, murals, needlework, carvings, signs, and other works created by American folk artists since 1900, with brief biographies of the one hundred and forty-five artists represented.

Author : Jay Johnson
Publisher : New York : Rizzoli
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century written by Jay Johnson and published by New York : Rizzoli. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guide to American folk artists and their work spans a century of painters from Grandma Moses to Kathy Jakobsen and covers such media as sculpture, pottery, and textile creations.

Author : Jane Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 written by Jane Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forms from African and American popular arts, photojournalism, advertising, voodoo and the landscape reflect oral traditions of black culture: rural legends, popular history, Biblical stories, revivalism. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Steve Glueckert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916537166
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange and Wonderful written by Steve Glueckert and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willem Volkersz first saw slides of Simon Rodia's folk art icon, Watts Towers, while he was an art student in Seattle, Washington. Watts Towers in Los Angeles is a group of structures as high as 99 feet made from scrap metal and concrete, with pottery shards and broken bottle fragments set into wet cement made by an Italian immigrant with a vision. Volkersz quickly developed an interest in equally exciting folk art environments and made pilgrimage to several of these sites, including Samuel P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden, Jesse Howard's Signs and Wonders and Hans Jorgensen's house decorated with farm tools. It was on a 1977 trip to Howard Finster's Paradise Garden that he and his wife, Diane, made a commitment to collecting and documenting the work by artists variously called contemporary folk artists, outsider artists, grassroots artists, or self-taught artists. Their collection now includes hundreds of pieces by American self-taught artists. The exhibition at the Fine Arts Center will have three areas of focus. First, it will represent a general survey of work in the collection with pieces by artists Howard Finster, Eddie O. Martin (aka St. EOM), Nellie Mae Rowe, and more. The exhibition will also include in-depth looks at the work of three artists featured prominently in the collection - Alva Gene Dexhimer, Robert E. Smith, and Mark Negus. - from Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center web page

Author : Betty-Carol Sellen
Publisher : Neal-Schuman Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 20th Century American Folk, Self-taught, and Outsider Art written by Betty-Carol Sellen and published by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographical section of this resource records 1000 US artists. Other sections contain lists of museums with folk, self-taught and outsider art in their permanent collections; galleries; organisations; publications; exhibitions; educational opportunities; and an annotated bibliography.

Author : Curtis L. Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Folk Art written by Curtis L. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristin G. Congdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313349371
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Folk Art [2 volumes] written by Kristin G. Congdon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this collection of informative and thoroughly engaging essays. American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because many of the artists in both categories have a clear identity with their land and culture, the work is organized by geographical region and includes an essay on each region to help make connections visible. There is also an introductory essay on U.S. folk art as a whole. Those writing about folk art to date tend to view each artist as either traditional or innovative. One of the major contributions of this work is that it demonstrates that folk artists more often exhibit both traits; they are grounded in their cultural context and creative in the way they make work their own. Such insights expand the study of folk art even as they readjust readers' understanding of who folk artists are.