Folk Art (New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture)

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.

• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture
• Self Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, Museum of American Folk Art
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 7: Foodways
• Textile Artist: Layered Cloth, The: The Art of Fabric Manipulation (The Textile Artist)
• Detour Art: Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Environments Coast to Coast - Art and Photographs from the Collection of Kelly Ludwig
• Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Self-Taught And Outsider Artists
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 14: Folklife
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 12: Music (v. 12)