{"product_id":"the-new-encyclopedia-of-southern-culture-volume-23-folk-art-9780807871744","title":"The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carol Crown | Cheryl Rivers | Charles Reagan Wilson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American \u0026amp; Black Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFolk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of \u003ci\u003eThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47575819976855,"sku":"9780807871744","price":4294.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807871744.webp?v=1774899101","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-new-encyclopedia-of-southern-culture-volume-23-folk-art-9780807871744","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}