The carver's art : crafting meaning from wood / Simon J. Bronner.

By:

Bronner, Simon J

Contributor(s):

Bronner, Simon J. Chain carvers

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813147864
0813147867

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Carver's art.DDC classification:

736/.4/09772 20

LOC classification:

NK9712 .B749 1996

Other classification:

21.87
73.85
7,26

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note to Paperback Edition; Preface; Illustration Credits; Prologue; CHAPTER ONE: Part of You Is in a Carving; CHAPTER TWO: Bet You Don't Know How I Made This; CHAPTER THREE: How Do You Figure It, That Darn Stuff?; Epilogue; Ten Years Later; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

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Summary: Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all ""made with just a pocketknife""--Are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for their makers, for their viewers, for our society? Simon J. Bronner portrays four wood carvers in southern Indiana, men who had been transplanted from the rural landscapes of their youth to industrial towns. After retiring, they took up a skill they remembered from childhood. Bronner discusses how creativity helped these men adjust to change and how vie

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A new and updated ed. of: Chain carvers : Lexington, Kentucky, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index.

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Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all ""made with just a pocketknife""--Are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for their makers, for their viewers, for our society? Simon J. Bronner portrays four wood carvers in southern Indiana, men who had been transplanted from the rural landscapes of their youth to industrial towns. After retiring, they took up a skill they remembered from childhood. Bronner discusses how creativity helped these men adjust to change and how vie

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