Article: Finnish Acropolis. (Folk Art Centre, Kaustinen, Finland)

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 ...

Article: New folk art museum to open in Savannah, Ga.
Savannah Morning News (Savannah, GA);  September 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 4--The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, which plans to open its doors in Savannah ... museum. "This museum will be unique among folk art museums because of its message," said ... controversial because of our attempt to define folk art." The decision to open a folk art ...

Article: FOLK-ART: LOCAL DEVOTEES OF THE GENRE'S SIMPLICITY ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  April 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ...They call themselves ENVISION FOLK ART, brothers and sisters, and they're ... worship of the simplistic beauty that is folk art. Their church? Any home, barn, field, flea market or open-minded museum where folk art can be viewed and appreciated. And their ...

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 ...