Exploring folk art : twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics / / Michael Owen Jones
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| Autore: |
Jones Michael Owen
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| Titolo: |
Exploring folk art : twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics / / Michael Owen Jones
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| Pubblicazione: | Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , [1993], c1987 |
| ©[1993], c1987 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Folklore - United States |
| Material culture - United States | |
| Folk art - United States | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Exploring folk art |
| ISBN: | 0-87421-380-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996197766403316 |
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