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Exploring folk art : twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics /

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 fig...

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Main Author: Jones, Michael
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Folk art > United States.
Material culture > United States.
Folklore > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
Fine Arts.
Social Science.
ART > Popular Culture.
ART > General.
Folk art.
Folklore.
Manners and customs.
Material culture.
United States.
Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987, in series: American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture.
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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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (219 pages)
Format: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780874213805
0874213800