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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Making Things. Violations of Standards of Excellence and Preference in Utilitarian Art -- A Strange Rocking Chair ... The Need to Express, the Urge to Create -- Part 2: Sensory Experiences. L.A. Re-dos and Add-ons: Private Space vs. Public Policy -- Modern Arts and Arcane Concepts: Expanding Folk Art Study -- Proof Is in the Pudding: The Role of Sensation in Food Choice as Revealed by Sensory Deprivation -- Part 3: Art at Work. Creating and Using Argot at the Jayhawk Cafe: Communication, Ambience, and Identity -- A Feeling for Form, as Illustrated by People at Work -- Aesthetics at Work: Art and Ambience in an Organization -- Part 4: Methods and Concepts. Aesthetic Attitude, Judgment, and Response: Definitions and Distinctions -- Material Culture of Corporate Life -- Preaching What We Practice: Pedagogical Techniques Regarding the Analysis of Objects in Organizations -- Epilogue. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Folk art -- United States.
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Folk art. |
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United States. |
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Material culture -- United States.
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Material culture. |
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Folklore -- United States.
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Folklore. |
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Indexed Term |
Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987, in series: American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture. |
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"Multi-User" |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780874211658 |
| ISBN |
9780874213805 (electronic book) |
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0874213800 (electronic book) |
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0874211654 |
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9780874211658 |
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