Folk Art

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...