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Record Nr.

UNISA996197766403316

Autore

Jones Michael Owen

Titolo

Exploring folk art : twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics / / Michael Owen Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , [1993], c1987

©[1993], c1987

ISBN

0-87421-380-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Disciplina

306.4/7

Soggetti

Folklore - United States

Material culture - United States

Folk art - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987, in series: American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Making things -- pt. 2. Sensory experiences -- pt. 3. Art at work -- pt. 4. Methods and concepts.

Sommario/riassunto

Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having  aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He  also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using  and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and  sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.