British Folk Art
by Ayres, James
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0214202690
- ISBN 13
- 9780214202698
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 144 pp, foreword, introduction, Methods and Materials; Ecce Signum; The Travellers; Ships and the Mariner; The Pictorial Arts; Inside the Home; Domestic Crafts; Craft Industries; index with color and b&w illustrations throughout. First Edition, 1977. "The informative text surveys both main categories of folk art, which can be classified according to its producers: it includes the work of those, usually men, who earned their living by it and whose technique was proficient, but it also covers the efforts of amateurs, often women, whose vision could be sophisticated but whose creations, though demanding dexterity, did not require the skills or secrets that only years of apprenticeship could proivde.... [Yet], in the vigour of their work and the inventiveness of their use of materials, the folk artists had qualities which were often lacking in their academic counterparts. This book surveys their achievements over a period from 1600 until 1900, when folk art was finally succumbing to industrialisation and to the destruction of the sub-cultures on which its traditions rest." from the jacket flap. Price clipped. Only the slightest wear to dj, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth w144 ith gilt lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001734
- Title
- British Folk Art
- Author
- Ayres, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0214202690
- ISBN 13
- 9780214202698
- Publisher
- Barrie & Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- ART HISTORY ENGLAND BRITISH FOLK ARTISTS 1600-1900
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART HISTORY;
- Size
- Small 4to
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