The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 23, Folk art / Carol Crown & Cheryl Rivers, volume editors ; Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ; Ann J. Abadie, associate editor.

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TextPublisher number: MWT11720088Series: New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 23.Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xx, 480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781469608006
1469608006
9781469607993
1469607999

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Folk art

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Encyclopedia of Southern culture.

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.DDC classification:

745.076 22

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NK811 .F65 2013eb

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Summary: Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and sou.

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One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, originally published in 1989.

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and sou.