Synopsis:
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.
From Library Journal:
In 50 years of travel, interior designer Alexander Girard amassed an impressive 100,000-work collection of cross-cultural folk art, which he subsequently donated to the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. The collection includes Polish nativity scenes, embroidered Peruvian dance capes, Indonesian shadow puppets, Panamanian molas, Pueblo pottery, and many other diverse examples of the universality of the human creative impulse. Glassie here offers a folklorist's tour of 300 of the objects, examining the nature of folk, art, and folk art in essays that consider aesthetics, literature, religion, art history, sociology, and anthropology. Unlike curators whose aesthetic considerations predominate over cultural analysis, Glassie interprets each artifact in terms of context. This magnificently illustrated title is for large public and academic libraries supporting folk art programs.
- Judith Yankielun Lind, Rose land Free P.L., N.J.
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