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American Vernacular
New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculpture
by Frank Maresca ; Roger Ricco
ISBN: 0821227807
ISBN-13: 9780821227800
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 10 x 11.25 inches
Weight: 4 pounds
Pages: 303
Publisher's Notes
A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes.
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Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the National Sculpture Society, this important history traces America's rich heritage of figurative sculpture from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 to the present. It explores the full range of the subject, including massive works such as Mount Rushmore as well as Augustus Saint-Gaudens's exquisite twenty-dollar gold piece. Illustrated with more than 275 outstanding examples of American figurative sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Masters of American Sculpture begins with an analysis of the influence of Beaux-Arts tradition on the creation of the great public monuments of the United States. With this background, the book moves on to survey chronologically such important categories of sculpture as equestrian monuments, tributes to war heroes, and portraits. In his wide-ranging text, the author, Donald Martin Reynolds, provides a comprehensive overview of the subject. He includes a section on medallic art, a category usually neglected in sculpture surveys, and also devotes a chapter to American Indians, both as widely favored subjects for sculpture and as sculptors themselves. Not neglecting genre, the author deals extensively with the large group of sculptors who concentrate on works portraying everyday people doing everyday things. Finally he surveys the figurative tradition in the twentieth century and speculates on future trends in sculpture. The book is lavishly illustrated with 65 color and 225 black and white images and includes famous public monuments as well as lesser known works by such sculptors as Hiram Powers, John Quincy Adams Ward, Daniel Chester French, Karl Bitter, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, PaulManship, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Richard McDermott Miller, Walker Hancock, and Marcel Jovine. This is a splendid gift book for anyone interested in sculpture, architecture, and American history.
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American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculptures
Frank Maresca; Roger Ricco; Contributor-Margit Rowell
Bulfinch, 2002-09-09. Hardcover. Like New. NEW book. There are marks on a couple of pages. Hardcover binding is secure. Cover is in good shape with light wear on the lower cover edges. Dust jacket is in good overall shape with some edge wear and abrasion on the edge of the spine in the front. We are happy to answer your questions about any item we sell. We pack carefully & ship daily. US buyers receive confirmation emails with tracking numbers. International and APO orders are welcome! ( more information) Offered by Highfield Book Shop (United States)
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American Vernacular
Maresca, Frank
Little Brown and Company, 2002-01-01. Hardcover. New. GREAT Bargain Book Deal - some may have small remainder mark - Ships out by NEXT Business Day - 100% Satisfaction Guarantee! ( more information) Offered by BookCloseouts.com (Canada)
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American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculpture
Frank Maresca; Roger Ricco, Margit Rowell; Joseph Jacobs; Lyle Rexer
Boston:: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown & Company,, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. AS NEW in AS NEW DJ. 4to (10 x 11-1/4); 303 pp including Index of artists. Book is FINE -- Unmarked, Unread, and AS NEW in AS NEW glossy pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Gift quality. (h) 450 color photos of art for art's sake -- early and backwoods and small town Americana that the formal art establishment overlooked until recently -- religious carvings and carnival figures, birdbaths, angels, bathing beauties, military figurines and funerary memorial sculptures, dolls of all sorts -- in short, exceptional soulful lovingly made pieces of art that had always been dismissed as kitsch or commercial or primitive. These were made by the true American artists, not imitating European styles but the sensibilities of their own communities, rarely educated other than at home -- whittlers, carvers, metal cutters, stone carvers, wood carvers -- in all a monumental and magnificent collection of artists' works hunted down and found. Like jazz and blues and rock and roll -- indigenous unique American culture. Book is AS NEW and gift quality. Weights nearly 5 pounds. 1/4 cloth ( more information) Offered by Book Junkies (United States)
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American Vernacular: New Discoveries
Maresca,Frank andRoger Ricco
Very Fine/Very Fine DJ photography,art America's Art Bulfinch 2002 1st edition. Large HB 301 pages., 1st edition,1st printing.Not clipped,remainder slash at top edge. ( more information) Offered by Enterprise Books (United States)
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American Vernacular (Qty: 25)
Frank Maresca
Bulfinch Press, 2002. Illustrated 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brand New. 11.30 x 10.00 x 1.20. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 64.0 oz. A groundbreaking retrospective of art from off the beaten path sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes. . ( more information) Offered by Books and More by the Rowe (United States)
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American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk Self-Taught and Outsider Sculpture
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introduction by Margit Rowell; Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco
Bulfinch Press Book, Little Brown & Co., Boston MA, 2002 301 pp., 450 illustrations in color. A small bump to the top right-hand corner, otherwise a fine copy. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine Condition/Fine Condition. ( more information) Offered by Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers (United States)
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American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider
Frank Maresca; Roger Ricco; Contributor-Margit Rowell
Bulfinch, 2002-09-09. Hardcover. New. First Edition, First Printing. New and in excellent condition. Gift quality. Pages are clean and crisp with a tight spine. Ships Quickly! Shop with confidence, satisfaction guaranteed! ( more information) Offered by novel-books (United States)
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