Article: New folk art museum to open in Savannah, Ga.

Article: Folk art as communal culture and art proper
Art Education;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Attitudes about folk art have undergone a remarkable transformation ... refined, com plex, and important. Interest in folk art reflects a growing concern not only for the nature and value of folk art but also for the manner in which folk art ...

Article: Folk art fanatics
Southwest Art;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... FAVORITE DUCK DECOY ARTIST DIED IN 1946, THE FOUNDER of the Museum of American Folk Art wrote that folk art had ceased to exist. The so-called demise of folk art was blamed on the new reliance on machine-made goods as well as the rise of art ...

Article: Folk art beauty in the eye of the collector
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Folk art is called "naive" and often rightly so ... old and new-became classified as "folk art." You can spend a little or a lot. However ... yourself, "Did someone's kid do it?" Folk art comes in many guises. Twentieth century ...

Encyclopedia entry: Folk Art and Crafts
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      700+ words ...Folk Art and Crafts. References to “folk art and crafts” arose in the early twentieth century ... x2010;world curators and writers began describing folk art as preindustrial painting and sculpture, often executed ...

Article: Formal and folk art canes
Antiques & Collecting Magazine;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... BE divided into two broad categories of folk art and formal canes, depending on their method of manufacture and their purpose. Folk art canes were created by nonprofessional ... stated boldly in the carved decoration on folk art canes. By contrast, formal canes were ...

Article: Encyclopedia of American Folk Art
The Journal of American Culture;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Encyclopedia of American Folk Art Gerard C. Wertkin, Editor. New York ... 2004. The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art includes one very manageable volume ... cultural background of three centuries of folk art in America. This comprehensive reference ...

Article: Folk Art Acquired; Smithsonian's NMAA Pays $1.4 ...
The Washington Post;  January 19, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... s principal collections of American folk art at a price of $1.4 million. The 378 ... stretch definitions of what is or is not folk art, but then definitions vary about what ... extent of Washington holdings in American folk art, a field much in vogue, in a city that ...