Folk art books

In Spiritual American Trash, Greg Bottoms goes beyond the examination of eight outsider artists and inhabits...  Read More >>

Patchwork quilts are hugely evocative emblems of our domestic past. With no two quite the same, each example hints...  Read More >>

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Over 700 attractive designs, spanning a broad range of historical periods and cultures, include examples of decorative...  Read More >>

The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of...  Read More >>

In the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956), the French established vocational and fine art schools, imposed...  Read More >>

Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque,...  Read More >>

The inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five...  Read More >>

The art and career of a western sculptor whose amazing performance with a power saw gives life to astonishing creations...  Read More >>

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This collection explores the way in which these minor arts have fought back to gain wider acceptance in our holistic...  Read More >>

Hailed as the seminal study of spray can art of the 1970s and 1980s, Aerosol Kingdom explores the origins and aesthetics...  Read More >>

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive introduction to the more than 2000-year-old tradition and art of painted picture scrolls...  Read More >>

Hawaiian tattoos (kakau) are intriguing, tribally exotic, ancient in origin, enigmatic, culturally meaningful, mysterious,...  Read More >>

In the Mexican states of Puebla and Veracruz, old masked dances have survived in isolated mountain regions. These...  Read More >>

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The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest - and largest - collections of American folk art....  Read More >>

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