Exploring Folk Art (American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture.) - Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work and Aesthetics

Michael Owen James

Utah State University Press

1987

220 páginas

7h 20m

ISBN-10: 0874211654

Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.