Bibliograph

Afro-American folk art and crafts, edited by William Ferris

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Afro-American folk art and crafts, edited by William Ferris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Afro-American folk art and crafts

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographies

Oclc number

13361045

Responsibility statement

edited by William Ferris

Series statement

Center for the Study of Southern Culture series

Summary

"This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that has emerged chiefly in the rural American South and in the black cultural centers as blacks migrated across the continent. Pictorial quilts, sculpture and carvings, basketry, pottery, forged metal, musical instruments, and dwellings--these are among the forms that express this appealingly quaint yet powerful presence in American art and the African folk heritage from which this wonderful art springs. Celebrating its African folkroots and the individual artists whose lives are so closely intertwined with their art, this illuminating introduction collects writings by sixteen notable scholars of this rich and varied treasury of folk culture."--P. [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction / William Ferris -- "Folkroots" / Roland L. Freeman -- African influence on the art of the United States / Robert Farris Thompson -- The Harriet Powers pictorial quilts / Marie Jeanne Adams -- Aesthetic principles in Afro-American quilts / Maude Southwell Wahlman and John Scully -- Pecolia Warner, quilt maker / William Ferris -- Vision in Afro-American folk art: the sculpture of James Thomas / William Ferris -- James "Son Ford" Thomas, sculptor / William Ferris -- Afro-American folk sculpture from Parchman Penitentiary / David Evans -- George "Baby" Scott (1865-1945): a carver and his repertoire / Elizabeth Mosby Adler -- Black fife and drum music in Mississippi / David Evans -- Othar Turner, cane fife maker / William Ferris -- Afro-American one-stringed instruments / David Evans -- Louis Dotson, one-stringed guitar maker / William Ferris -- The folk banjo: a documentary history / Dena J. Epstein -- Afro-American coil basketry in Charleston County, South Carolina: affective characteristics of an artistic craft in a social context / Gerald L. Davis -- Harvesting and heritage: a comparison of Afro-American and African basketry / Mary Twining -- The shotgun house: an African architectural legacy / John Michael Vlach -- The homestead of Frank Foster / William Ferris -- Phillip Simmons: Afro-American blacksmith / John M. Vlach -- Afro-American folk pottery in the South / John A. Burrison -- Folklore and art history / Simon J. Bronner and Christopher Lornell

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African American folk art and crafts

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