Description: Make sure you click on our store icon. Thousands of rare and vintage items up for auction in our eBay Store. Make an offer available on all items. Many out of production and no longer available. Check it out! You are bidding on: Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Rizzoli; First Edition edition (November 15, 1986) Language: English ISBN-10: 0847807657 ISBN-13: 978-0847807659 Examines paintings, sculpture, embroidery, scrimshaw, toys, rugs, quilts, and weather vanes that make use of American symbols and ideals From Publishers Weekly A child's sled with an American flag painted on it, the Penn Fire Insurance Company's cast-iron bust of William Penn, a lithograph of the Statue of Liberty on a cookie boxall are examples of familiar American symbols reworked into daily objects. This survey demonstrates how common images of home, freedom, religion and patriotism pop up in folk art. It also digresses widely into other areas to uncover serendipitous delights. There's a New England "mourning picture," circa 1850, idealizing woman as keeper of the dead; a colorful 1973 painting of an Orthodox Jewish wedding; a swift, a gadget made of whale-ivory and bone, used to wind skeins of spun yarn. What this smorgasbord lacks in unity, it more than makes up for in exploring byways of folk art. Ketchum is author of American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Book Title: All American Folk Arts and Crafts
Author: William C. Ketchum Jr., Rizzoli Staff
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Folk & Outsider Art, Decorative Arts
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1986
Genre: Design, Art, Non-Classifiable
Item Weight: 20 oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
