TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kay,Jon
TI  - Folk art and aging: life-story objects and their makers 
T2  - Material vernaculars
SN  - 9780253022202
AV  - N5312 .K39 2016eb
U1  - 745.01/9 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Folk art
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Art therapy for older people
KW  - Memory in art
KW  - Aging
KW  - Folk artists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Art populaire
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Art-thérapie pour personnes âgées
KW  - Vieillissement
KW  - Artistes populaires
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biographies
KW  - ART
KW  - Folk & Outsider Art
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - CRAFTS & HOBBIES
KW  - Folkcrafts
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Folklore & Mythology
KW  - fast
KW  - Älterer Mensch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Altern
KW  - Kunsttherapie
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - Volkskunst
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Bob Taylor : stories in wood and words -- Gustav Potthoff : memory paintings -- Marian Sykes : recalling memories and making rugs -- John Schoolman : objects, life review, and sociability -- Milan Opacich : life-story displays and narratives
N2  - Growing old doesn't have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity. Offering an absorbing and fresh perspective on aging and crafts, Jon Kay explores how elders choose to tap into their creative and personal potential through making life-story objects. Carving, painting, and rug hooking not only help seniors to cope with the ailments of aging and loneliness but also to achieve greater satisfaction with their lives. Whether revived from childhood memories or inspired by their capacity to connect to others, meaningful memory projects serve as a lens for focusing on, remaking, and sharing the long-ago. These activities often help elders productively fill the hours after they have raised their children, retired from their jobs, and/or lost a loved one. These individuals forge new identities for themselves that do not erase their earlier lives but build on them and new lives that include sharing scenes and stories from their memories
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