[PDF] Treasures Of American Folk Art From The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center eBook

Author : Gerard C. Wertkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1583 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135956146

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For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Containing more than 600 articles, this unique reference considers individual artists, schools, artistic, ethnic, and religious traditions, and heroes who have inspired folk art. An incomparable resource for general readers, students, and specialists, it will become essential for anyone researching American art, culture, and social history.

Author : Florence Cassen Mayers
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780879350840

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Count up to twenty using examples from the collection of 18th-20th century folk art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Author : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
Publisher : Bulfinch
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821216200

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""The peculiar charm of their work results sometimes from what would be technical inadequacies from the academic view, distortion, curiously personal perspective, and what not. But they were not simply artists who lacked adequate training. The work of the best of them has a directness, unity, and a power which one does not always find in the work of standard masters." In the half century since these words were written by Holger Cahill, who assisted Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in her early collecting of American folk art, these powerful and charming images have been ever more enthusiastically embraced. The works presented here are of great variety: landscapes, seascapes, portraits of homes, farms, and factories, still lifes, religious and historical paintings, fraktur and decorative writings, and mourning pictures. Many of the artists are anonymous, but others, including Ammi Phillips, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Grandma Moses, are well known. A special section is devoted to Edward Hicks. Another section examines the work of Lewis Miller, whose lively sketchbooks are a remarkable resource for investigations into life and customs in nineteenth-century America. Three hundred eighty-three paintings and drawings, exquisitely reproduced and thoroughly examined and documented, are presented."--book jacket.