Folk Art

This significant catalog is a highly detailed look at the world s most celebrated collection of red and white quilts. Like the Log Cabin or Baltim...

For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, th...

Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial - Edmund de WaalThe daily ...

Relax and unwind by coloring lovely illustrations of Japanese craftsmanship in Japanese Folk Art Coloring Book.   Japanese folk art, also known as ...

Rebalancing and reframing how Mexican folk dances and masks have historically been depicted, Dancing with Life takes a collaborative and participat...

Dive into the life and work of master craftsman Jeronimo Lozano and his extraordinarily detailed retablos. Steeped in ancient Peruvian traditions, ...

A practical and inspirational guide to textile folk art from cultures all around the world, accompanied by step-by-step projects. From samplers and...

An unparalleled introduction to American folk art, accompanying a major traveling exhibition. A handsome and insightful survey of American folk art...

Here are India's best-known beasts -- tiger, elephant, deer, snake... rendered by a variety of folk and tribal artists. Each of their artistic trad...

The Bhil people of Central India are amongst the country''s oldest indigenous communities. To them, the natural world is not ''a thing apart'', but...

Bird decoys were used for hunting in North America until the advent of hunting regulations in the early twentieth century, when decoys started to b...

The undervalued force behind the Highwaymen phenomenon.A long-awaited testament to the life and work of Alfred Hair, the driving force of the Flori...

Coiled grass baskets are icons of Gullah culture. From their roots in Africa, through their evolution on Lowcountry rice plantations, to their mode...

Mexicos love of celebration is well known, and cartonería, a kind of papier-mâché art, produces the objects that are essential to Mexican holidays ...

This design history of Southwestern Indian bracelets examines their start in 1868 up through 1970, and the post-1980 legacy that honors those first...

This book features the largest collection of Mr. T memorabilia in the world, including over 150 homemade soft sculpture dolls collected and documen...

Savor the richness and beauty of wool appliquéits texture, depth, color, and design. Well-known, award-winning folk artist Rebekah L. Smith will ig...

For four decades, the embroiderers of Ninhue, Chile, have been stitching scenes of rural life in the 'place of stones' - their village in the footh...

From dime novels to Wild West movies, from cowboy heroes to tribal villains, from masculine mystique to female virtue: the nineteenth-century Ameri...

First used to gauge New England's ever-changing weather, now viewed as American folk art, historic weathervanes have been a part of the region's...

Ed Hardy s (b. 1945) unique vision spans decades, creating an indelible mark on popular culture. Accompanying a major exhibition, this profusely il...

Buried in deep valleys, there are citadels of ochre earth. Near the sea there are white chalked casbahs and vast tranquil palm-gardens and deserts ...

The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consum...

Thornton Dial (b. 1928), one of the most important artists in the American South, came to prominence in the late 1980s and was celebrated internati...

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. For Kith and Kin provides an introduction to th...