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Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts

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Availability:In StockContributor:William R. Ferris (Editor)Publish date:2009-06-01Pages:440
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781604733914ISBN-10:1604733918UPC:9781604733914Book Category:Art, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Folk & Outsider Art, American, EssaysBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC81AKBKBD

Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts

This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in the black cultural centers as blacks migrated across the continent.

Pictorial quilts, sculpture and carvings, basketry, pottery, forged metal, musical instruments, and dwellings--these are among the forms that express this appealingly quaint yet...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781604733914ISBN-10:1604733918UPC:9781604733914Book Category:Art, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Folk & Outsider Art, American, EssaysBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC81AKBKBD
William R. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the senior associate director emeritus of its Center for the Study of the American South. The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1997-2001), Ferris has written or edited ten books, created fifteen documentary films, and his most recent...
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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