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Crafting Beauty In Modern Japan : Celebrating Fifty Years Of The Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition

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edited by Nicole RousmanierePublication Details
BookUniversity of Washington Press2007Description
Japan has a long tradition of superb craft work in many media, including ceramics, textiles, laquerwork, metal, wood, glass, and bamboo. Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan presents some of the finest examples of art-craft created in Japan in the past fifty years, submitted to the Japan Art Craft Association annual exhibition, an open and competitive showcase inaugurated in 1954. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NK1071 .C73 2007 AVAILABLE
Kingdom Of Beauty : Mingei And The Politics Of Folk Art In Imperial Japan

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Kim BrandtPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2007Links
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A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NK1071 .B73 2007 AVAILABLE
Just Above The Water : Florida Folk Art

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Kristin G. Congdon and Tina BucuvalasPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity Press of Mississippi2006Links
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Florida has an abundance of excellent artists whose work reflects the traditions of their many diverse communities. This book includes an overall view of folk arts in Florida and individual profiles of over seventy artists, including Mary Proctor, Mario Sanchez, Nicholas Toth, Ruby C. Some consider folk art to be art created by self-taught individuals working in an idiosyncratic style, while others believe it to be the expression of traditional cultural forms. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NK835.F6 C66 2006 AVAILABLE
Folk Art Journey : Florence D. Bartlett And The Museum Of International Folk Art : Featuring The Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection
Crafting Tradition : The Making And Marketing Of Oaxacan Wood Carvings

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Michael ChibnikPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Texas Press2003Links
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?Arthur Murphy, Georgia State University, coauthor of Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F1219.1.O11 C443 2003 AVAILABLE
Encyclopedia Of American Folk Art

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Gerard C. Wertkin, editor ; Lee Kogan, associate editor ; in association with the American Folk Art MuseumPublication Details
BookRoutledge2004Links
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In addition to profiles of painters, sculptors, carvers, and lithographers, with details on their principal works and where they can be viewed, entries include: Artist Schools * Basketry * Beadwork * Ceramics * Ethnic and Religious Traditions of Folk Art * Flasks * Museums and other institutions holding collections of folk art * Painted Furniture and other Artifacts* * Quilts * Rugs * Shop Signs * Stoneware * Tavern * Toys * Weathervanes * and much more. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) NK805 .E6 2004 AVAILABLE
Art And Aesthetics In Chinese Popular Prints : Selections From The Muban Foundation Collection

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Ellen Johnston LaingPublication Details
BookCenter for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan2002Description
Traditional woodblock prints preserve a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. The emphasis on the artistic aspects of these prints makes this publication uniquely appealing to Chinese art historians but also to those interested in Chinese anthropology, popular religion, Chinese and other folk art, and traditional crafts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NE1183.25 .L35 2002 AVAILABLE
Timeless Beauty : Traditional Japanese Art From The Montgomery Collection

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essays by Edmund de Waal … [et al.]Publication Details
BookSkira2002Description
This richly illustrated book presents the Jeffrey Montgomery collection of traditional Japanese art, one of the foremost collections of this art in the world. The introduction written by Dr. Edmund de Waal, a potter and a writer whose works are held in many museum collections, focuses on the history of the appreciation of Japanese Folk arts in the West. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NK1071 .T56 2002 AVAILABLE
Drawing On America’s Past : Folk Art, Modernism, And The Index Of American Design

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Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Elizabeth Stillinger, Erika DossPublication Details
BookNational Gallery of Art2002Description
This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NK805 .C58 2002 AVAILABLE
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