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Exploring Folk Art

  • Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics

  • by Michael Owen Jones
University Press of Colorado - Exploring Folk Art
  • Paperback Price: $28.95

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 figures out of cement.

 

  • Michael Owen Jones

    Michael Owen Jones is professor emeritus of Culture and Performance in the department of World Arts and Cultures, of which he is a founding member, at UCLA.

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-87421-165-8
  • Publication Year: 1993
  • Pages: 228
  • Discount Type: Short
  • ECommerce Code: 978-0-87421-165-8
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