Contemporary American Folk Art
Title | Contemporary American Folk Art PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Rosenak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781558598973 |
For the new or seasoned collector, this groundbreaking guide reveals how to evaluate contemporary American folk art as well as where to see it, buy it, and what to spend on it. The highly informative text is organized by region and features more than 181 biographies of both new and established artists. Color photos of more than 155 works as well as 44 black-and-white portraits of the artists are included.
Contemporary American Folk Artists
Title | Contemporary American Folk Artists PDF eBook |
Author | Elinor Lander Horwitz |
Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780397316274 |
Briefly discusses the lives and works of twenty-two American folk painters, carvers, and environmentalists.
Folk Art Fusion: Americana
Title | Folk Art Fusion: Americana PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Laforme |
Publisher | Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2014-10-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1633224643 |
Fans of Charles Wysocki, Mary Engelbreit, Grandma Moses, and folk art in general will fall in love with this guide to painting, organized by seasons. Featuring projects that instruct artists of all skill levels how to draw and paint subjects that include quaint homes, pretty patterns, colorful gardens, picturesque farms, beautiful birds, and textured florals, this book features American-themed folk art infused with a modern twist. Beginning with an overview of what folk art is, followed by introductory topics like color, tools and materials, and drawing and painting techniques, Folk Art Fusion: Americana also includes sixteen simple step-by-step projects done in approachable and popular mediums. Rounding out the book is a gallery of folk-art pieces sure to inspire lovers of all things Americana. Simultaneously fresh and nostalgic, Folk Art Fusion: Americana draws on America’s rich artistic tradition and heritage and provides a fun, accessible take on creating beloved scenes from the heartland.
Strange and Wonderful
Title | Strange and Wonderful PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Glueckert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2014-02-08 |
Genre | Folk art |
ISBN | 9780916537166 |
Willem Volkersz first saw slides of Simon Rodia's folk art icon, Watts Towers, while he was an art student in Seattle, Washington. Watts Towers in Los Angeles is a group of structures as high as 99 feet made from scrap metal and concrete, with pottery shards and broken bottle fragments set into wet cement made by an Italian immigrant with a vision. Volkersz quickly developed an interest in equally exciting folk art environments and made pilgrimage to several of these sites, including Samuel P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden, Jesse Howard's Signs and Wonders and Hans Jorgensen's house decorated with farm tools. It was on a 1977 trip to Howard Finster's Paradise Garden that he and his wife, Diane, made a commitment to collecting and documenting the work by artists variously called contemporary folk artists, outsider artists, grassroots artists, or self-taught artists. Their collection now includes hundreds of pieces by American self-taught artists. The exhibition at the Fine Arts Center will have three areas of focus. First, it will represent a general survey of work in the collection with pieces by artists Howard Finster, Eddie O. Martin (aka St. EOM), Nellie Mae Rowe, and more. The exhibition will also include in-depth looks at the work of three artists featured prominently in the collection - Alva Gene Dexhimer, Robert E. Smith, and Mark Negus. - from Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center web page
Contemporary American Folk Art
Title | Contemporary American Folk Art PDF eBook |
Author | Curtis L. Carter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | African American folk art |
ISBN |
100 Books Every Folk Music Fan Should Own
Title | 100 Books Every Folk Music Fan Should Own PDF eBook |
Author | Dick Weissman |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2014-01-30 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0810886669 |
In recent years an almost overwhelming number of books have appeared covering various aspects of American folk music and its history. Before 1970, most comprised collections of songs with a sprinkling of biographical information on noted performers. Over the past decade, however, scholars, journalists, and folk artists themselves have contributed biographies and autobiographies, instructional books and historical surveys, sociological studies and ethnographic analyses of this musical genre. In 100 Books Every Folk Music Fan Should Own, performer and historian Dick Weissman offers a reliable route through the growing sea of book-length studies, establishing for future scholars a foundation for their research. Beginning with early twentieth-century collections of folk songs, the author brings readers to the present by exploring modern studies of important events, critical collections of primary sources, the most significant musical instruction guides, and in-depth portraits of traditional and contemporary American folk musicians. For each title selected, Weissman provides his own brief summary of its contents and assessment of its significance for the reader—whether fan or scholar. Folk music fans, scholars, and students of the American folk music tradition—indeed, any reader seeking guidance on the best books in the field—will want a copy of this vital work.
Muffled Voices
Title | Muffled Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Didi Barrett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Art, American |
ISBN |