Folk Art category: 85 books
by Heather Audin
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Patchwork quilts are hugely evocative emblems of our domestic past. With no two quite the same, each example hints both at the story of the particular household in which it was produced and at a larger piece of social history. But quilting is by no means only historical, with the craft seeing a huge...
by Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia (including...
Embroidered Stories
Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting...
Voicing Scotland
Culture and Tradition in a Modern Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Voicing Scotland takes the reader on a discovery tour through Scotland
by Judy Farnham
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
After many years, I am still a member of the National Society of Decorative Painters and support them by attending the conventions. I took a look at the pictures of my creations and asked myself what I should do with them. It was at this time that I decided to share them in a book with others. I hope this book inspires you to enjoy painting as much as I do.
Botánicas
Sacred Spaces of Healing and Devotion in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Botánicas is an exploration in text and photographs of spiritual shops found in Latino neighborhoods throughout the United States. Readers discover these marvelous spaces and their alternative spiritualties that help patrons cope with the grind and challenges of city life. Botánicas provide access...
Hierós
arte sacra contemporanea
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Catalogo del progetto Hierós | Arte Sacra Contemporanea.
A cura di: Alessandro Passerini, Giulia Pesarin, Giuseppe Bacci, Rita Di Mascio, Denise Galuzzi, Pasquale Grilli, Monica Seksich.
Artisti: Mirko Dadich, Vladimiro Lilla, Alessandro Passerini, Michela Sbuelz, Monica Seksich, Franco Sumberaz, Symbolon, Massimo Volponi, Luca Zarattini.
Hierós
Galleria del Carbone
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Catalogo del progetto espositivo Hierós | Arte Sacra Contemporanea, presso la Galleria del Carbone di Ferrara.
A cura di: Paolo Volta, Alessandro Passerini, Giuseppe Bacci.
Artisti: Mirko Dadich, Vladimiro Lilla, Alessandro Passerini, Michela Sbuelz, Monica Seksich, Franco Sumberaz, Symbolon, Massimo Volponi, Luca Zarattini.
by Patrick Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
This book will inspire and amuse readers and viewers of all ages. We have selected more than100 pieces of our most popular artwork and associated poetry at the request of our online readers to allow it to be enjoyed by a wider audience. Within these pages, you will find many worlds. Things past, present...
by Ian Pyper
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The Log Book of a lone Astronaut/Psychonaut/Holonaut in a holographic exploration through space and time to an extremely large planet in the distant recesses of an unknown galaxy - resembling in many respects a human eye (named Ocularis). Mimetic in character, it has somehow focused its gaze on the Earth...
Il Dono dei Fiori
Creatività e Tradizione nelle Infiorate del Lazio
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 8, 2015
In occasione del Corpus Domini e di diverse feste religiose primaverili, in molti paesi del Lazio si può assistere all'allestimento delle Infiorate: mosaici pavimentali composti da quadri, figure religiose, scritte, motivi ornamentali di vario genere, realizzati mediante l'utilizzo di fiori e di...
The Littlest Birds Sing the Prettiest Songs
Folk Music Illustrated by Jennie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Our love affair with folk songs runs as deep as the enduring power of music, nature, creativity, and the longings of the human heart. Artist Jennie Smith celebrates the tradition with her illustrated renderings of thirteen soulful songs, including time-honored Scottish ballads, classics by the likes...
Caffe Lena
Inside America's Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In 1960, burgeoning actress and defiant dreamer Lena Spencer opened a small, grassroots coffeehouse in the quaint upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs. Within her then-husband’s plan to start the Caffè as a means for the couple to artistically flourish while “making enough money to retire...
26 Songs in 30 Days
Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days--including classics like “Roll On Columbia” and “Pastures of Plenty”--when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Timed to celebrate the...