| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and sou. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Folk art -- Southern States -- History.
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Folk art. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Art, American -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
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Art, American. |
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Encyclopedias.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Crown, Carol.
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Rivers, Cheryl, 1949-
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University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
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| Added Title |
Folk art |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Crown, Carol. New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013 9780807834428 |
| ISBN |
9781469608006 (electronic book) |
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1469608006 (electronic book) |
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