The spirit of folk art : the Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art

Author(s)

• Glassie, Henry H.
• Monteaux, Michel
• Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)
• Museum of New Mexico

Bibliographic Information

The spirit of folk art : the Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art

Henry Glassie ; color photography by Michel Monteaux ; black-and-white photography and drawings by Henry Glassie

Abrams in association with the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1989

• : Abrams
• :Abram : pbk.
• : Museum of New Mexico : pbk

Note

Paperback edition published in 1995

Bibliography: p. 265-269

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Girard Collection at Santa Fe's Museum of International Art encompasses more than 100,000 works from 100 cultures worldwide. Here, folklorist Henry Glassie has selected 300 objects from the collection to illustrate a wide-ranging study of folk art. The pieces depicted - ceramic figures, beaded purses, intricate textiles, dolls and toys - combine beauty with function. The essay draws upon aesthetics, literature, religion, art history, sociology, and anthropology to examine the creative wellsprings of folk art, while over 50 field photographs show the artists at work evoking the human factor, central to the folk-art tradition.

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Details

• NCID: BA11100747
• ISBN:
  • 0810915227
  • 0810924382
  • 0890131937
• LCCN: 88021854
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 276 p.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NK607
  • DC19 : 745/.074/018956
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Folk art -- Exhibitions
  • LCSH : Girard, Alexander -- Art collections -- Exhibitions
  • LCSH : Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.) -- Exhibitions