Essays in folk art / A. Everette James, Jr.

Author/creator James, A. Everette
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill, NC : Professional Press, ©2000.
Description230 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Subjects
James, A. Everette, Jr. (Alton Everette), 1938-2017
Primitivism in art--Southern States.
Folk art--Southern States.
Outsider art--Southern States.
Art, American--Southern States. --20th century.
African American art--Southern States.
Artists--Southern States.
Folk artists--Southern States.
Artists--North Carolina.
Folk artists--North Carolina.

Contents The spectrum of contemporary folk art -- Essay two -- The good, the bad, and the outrageous -- The aesthetics of folk art -- Parallels of contemporary art and contemporary folk art -- Contemporary folk art : family affairs -- In the Pickles -- The wonderland of Alice Stallings -- African traditions in contemporary African-American folk art -- A visit with the Sandman [Lonnie Holley] -- The visionary artist : Dessie Norman -- Rockvale's finest : Alvin Jarrett -- The Bonesman : Oscar (Oskar) Gilchrist -- Homage to Funzi : the root spirit in contemporary folk art -- The Pocosin carver of Roper : William Baxton -- All the glitter just may be [O. L. "Geech" Samuels] -- The folk in folk art -- The Furniture Man : Mr. Sam [McMillan] -- Q. J. [Stephenson] : the environmentalist -- Artful Arliss Watford -- The Tinman and the Wizard may be the same [Charlie Lucas] -- The Haliwa-Saponi sculptor [Claude Richardson] -- Broadside with [Richard] Burnside -- The Sawdust King [Archie Byron] -- The bard of Bynum [Clyde Jones] -- The Calder of Carolina : Vollis Simpson -- The Queen of Gourds [Minnie Black] -- Reverend Anderson Johnson -- Collecting contemporary folk art : the acquisition adventure -- Travels with Howard [Smith] -- At the [Kentuck] festival with Mr. Grady -- Jimbo's jaunts [Jim Hedges] -- A comment upon the analysis of folk art.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 38).
LCCN 00133948
ISBN1570875472

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Joyner NC Stacks N6512.5.P7 J36 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold