HOW TO KNOW AMERICAN FOLK ART Edited by Ruth Andrews
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This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates the great expressive power and high aesthetic quality of American folk art. Eleven of the most distinguished authorities in the field demonstrate the substance and purpose of folk art and explain its development from Colonial times to the twentieth century. Chapters include "Early New England Gravestones," "The Wildfowl Decoy,""Redware and Stoneware Folk Pottery," "Folk Art of Spanish New Mexico," "American Folk Painting," "American Country Furniture," "American Quilts," "Pennsylvania German Folk Art," "American Folk Sculpture," and "American Folk Art in the Twentieth Century."
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