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Author:   Lynne Adele ,  Bruce Lee Webb ,  David Byrne
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.728kg
ISBN:  

9780292759503

ISBN 10:   0292759509
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 November 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

About As Above, So Below Foreword: Art from the Other America, by David Byrne Prefaces, by Lynne Adele and Bruce Lee Webb Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Rise of American Fraternal Societies in the Nineteenth Century Immigrant Societies African American Societies Religious Societies Fraternal Buildings 2. The Growth of an Industry 3. Societies with Secrets: An Introduction to Fraternal Orders Freemasonry Odd Fellowship Knights of Pythias Speculative Woodcraft Modern Woodmen of America Woodmen of the World Improved Order of Red Men Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange) The Objects: A Symbolic Art 4. Death Related Imagery / Memento Mori 5. Painting 6. Banners 7. The Magic Lantern 8. Chromolithographs 9. Costumes and Regalia Costumes Ceremonial Regalia and Parade Dress Fraternal Aprons 10. Three-Dimensional Ritual Objects 11. The Lodge Goat: The Lighter Side of Fraternalism 12. Vernacular Expressions of Fraternity John Haley Bellamy Tramp Art Trench Art of World War I Textiles 13. Monumental Expressions of Fraternalism Mendocino Lodge No. 179, Mendocino, California Ernest Hüpeden’s Painted Forest, Valton, Wisconsin Samuel P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden, Lucas, Kansas 14. Brothers at Rest: Fraternal Funerary Traditions Notes Bibliography The Authors Photography Credits Index

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It's a book so beautifully designed and illustrated that one is tempted to don a fez and make a secret sign. * Shepherd Express * [a[ superbly illustrated volume, the first of its kind to investigate secret societies with such an uncommonly rich and informative visual presentation. * Hyperallergic *

[a[ superbly illustrated volume, the first of its kind to investigate secret societies with such an uncommonly rich and informative visual presentation. * Hyperallergic * It's a book so beautifully designed and illustrated that one is tempted to don a fez and make a secret sign. * Shepherd Express *

""It’s a book so beautifully designed and illustrated that one is tempted to don a fez and make a secret sign."" * Shepherd Express * ""[a[ superbly illustrated volume, the first of its kind to investigate secret societies with such an uncommonly rich and informative visual presentation."" * Hyperallergic *

Author Information

LYNNE ADELE, an independent art historian with an extensive art museum and commercial art gallery background, has specialized in the work of self-taught, folk, and outsider artists for more than twenty-five years. She has written and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs, books, and journals on American folk art; her exhibition catalog Spirited Journeys: Self-Taught Texas Artists of the Twentieth Century has become a standard reference in the field. BRUCE LEE WEBB has been a collector of fraternal objects for more than twenty-five years. He is a 32º Scottish Rite Mason, Royal Arch Mason, Cryptic Mason, and Knight Templar; he is also an Odd Fellow and is a Royal Purple degree member of the Odd Fellows Encampment. He has been initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star, the Rebekahs, and the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife Julie own Webb Gallery, which specializes in the work of self-taught, folk, and outsider artists.

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