Folkkonst

"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonpla...

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A newly reissued edition of the beloved illustrated survey of gnome life, history, and lore, which has sold astronomically since its original publication in 1977 Did you know that gnome couples always have twin children? Or that a gnome is seven t...

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Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped. Ripped and Torn began in in Glasgow in November 1976 and carried on into the next wave of punk. It ran for eighteen issues, all of ...

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Detta är berättelsen om hur rokokon kom till Jämtland, en avlägsen bygd utan herresäten och med stora avstånd. Begåvade jämtar sökte sig till Stockholm och Gävle. En konstintresserad officer, Carl Hofverberg, återvände bokstavligen med rokokon i p...

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From black cats to iconic snowscapes, Maud Lewis paints our waking dreams. One of Canada's most beloved folk artists, Maud Lewis was famous in her lifetime for her brightly coloured and endearing paintings of rural Nova Scotia. Working from h...

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In MAINTENANT 18, contemporary dada writers and artists from around the world redistribute a wealth of new ideas, to shape public opinion using the theme of PLUTOCRAZY. Timely and relevant. Tribe LA Magazine. Proof that dada is not dead. MADJAN Ma...

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An exploration of 200 years of Shaker design and spirituality, with new attention to Shaker influence on contemporary design Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, en...

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craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Ja...

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Dress helps us fashion identity, history, community, and place. Dress has been harnessed as a metaphor for both progress and stability, the exotic and the utopian, oppression and freedom, belonging and resistance. Dressing with Purpose examines th...

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For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the...

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The first comprehensive publication on artist Jessie Homer French¿s work. Born in 1940 in New York, New York, Jessie Homer French lives and works in Mountain Center, California. Homer French is a self-taught, self-proclaimed ¿regional narrative pa...

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Celtic Art is the only indigenous British art form of world significance and this book is a graphically eloquent plea for the establishment of this great national art to its rightful place in schools and colleges where the history of ornament is b...

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An updated and substantially revised edition of this comprehensive introduction to outsider art, distinguished by its wider international scope and inclusion of global developments since 2000. Outsider Art is the work produced outside the mainstre...

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A new high quality paperback edition, reproducing in its entirety the English mystic and artist's seventy-nine-card, hand-painted tarot deck alongside contemporary essays and archival material. A new high quality paperback edition of Lost Envoy: t...

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A practical and inspirational guide to textile folk art from cultures all around the world, accompanied by step-by-step projects. From samplers and quilts in Europe, to tribal and nomadic cloth further afield in Mongolia and China, folk and tradit...

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The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so be appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would inspire him, fourteen years later, to trav...

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Visions of Nordic introspectiveness, occult pocket watches, suburban drifting, untamed forests and butterfly appreciation all come together in a sticky weave of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling. Tihku is a joint work by twelve artists and ...

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Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Extracts from the 39 volumes of my science "Zermati...

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Folkkonst är ett mångtydigt och omdiskuterat begrepp. Nordiska museets utställning Folkkonst lyfter fram prakten och grannlåten, skönheten och skaparglädjen i museets stora samlingar av föremål från det svenska bondesamhället under tiden 1750 1850...

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Create dozens of beautiful paper wildflowers that look just like the real thing! In this book, paper artist Emiko Yamamoto presents her secrets for making realistic blossoms, leaves and stems from inexpensive colored paper sheets. Her flexible cut...

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This publication will focus on the Alphabet Bété, widely considered to be the central work of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré's oeuvre, recently acquired by MoMA, and the focal point of the upcoming 2022 exhibition. In addition to a deep dive into the Alph...

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Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and...

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Norman Rockwell's son, Tom, has put together the absolute finest collection of his father's bounteous body of work, illustrations that bespeak the golden glow of pre- and post-WWII Americana. Rockwell senior, who said he depicted life &q...

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Would you believe me if I told you that you're a witch? A crafty enchanter born with the abilities to create beauty, read secret languages, heal the heart and attract the attention of the strange and wonderful? The serendipitous event of this...

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Relax and unwind by coloring lovely illustrations of Japanese craftsmanship in Japanese Folk Art Coloring Book. Japanese folk art, also known as mingei, is an art movement created by Soetsu Yanagi and two of his friends. Yanagi created the mingei ...

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The first-ever English translation of the living legend 'Artist' Namboodiri's memoir, Sketches features his eloquent line drawings interspersed with vivid portrayals of the people and places-both ordinary and significant-that he gre...

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African-American art has made an increasingly vital contribution to the art of the United States from the time of its origins in early-eighteenth-century slave communities. This major reassessment of the subject discusses folk and decorative arts ...

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This is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with folk art and literary criticism in relation to slavery and freedom in North American history.

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The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to...

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In May 1965 Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that 'the Viet Cong has committed the most unbelievable acts of terrorism the world has ever known.' And throughout the long conflict in Vietnam, Americans similarly demonized the enemy...

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