Exploring folk art : twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics

Exploring folk art : twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics / by Michael Owen Jones.

Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike fig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Michael Owen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Folk art > United States.
Material culture > United States.
Folklore > United States.
ART > Popular Culture.
ART > General.
Folk art
Folklore
Manners and customs
Material culture
United States > Social life and customs.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Making Things. Violations of Standards of Excellence and Preference in Utilitarian Art
  • A Strange Rocking Chair ... The Need to Express, the Urge to Create
  • Part 2: Sensory Experiences. L.A. Re-dos and Add-ons: Private Space vs. Public Policy
  • Modern Arts and Arcane Concepts: Expanding Folk Art Study
  • The Proof Is in the Pudding: The Role of Sensation in Food Choice as Revealed by Sensory Deprivation
  • Part 3: Art at Work. Creating and Using Argot at the Jayhawk Cafe: Communication, Ambience, and Identity
  • A Feeling for Form, as Illustrated by People at Work
  • Aesthetics at Work: Art and Ambience in an Organization
  • Part 4: Methods and Concepts. Aesthetic Attitude, Judgment, and Response: Definitions and Distinctions
  • The Material Culture of Corporate Life
  • Preaching What We Practice: Pedagogical Techniques Regarding the Analysis of Objects in Organizations
  • Epilogue.

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