Description: ”This is the first general survey of American folk sculpture – wood-carving, metal-casting, stone-cutting – an important and until recently strangely neglected branch of early American art. Here is folk art in the truest sense: sculptures mostly made by anonymous craftsmen and amateurs, carvers, carpenters, cabinet-makers, shipwrights, black-smiths, stone-cutters, metal-workers, sailors, farmers and laborers. Their art is an authentic expression of American experience.” With 183 photo plate illustrations, and 4 cover color plates, here is a classic study ofAMERICAN FOLK ART IN WOOD, METAL AND STONE by Jean Lipman, Pantheon, Conn., 1948. This book depicts “nearly two hundred examples of ships’ figureheads and ornaments, weathervanes, cigar-store figures, circus and carrousel carvings, toys, decoys, house and garden sculpture and sculptural portraits, representing the best of this work. In a lively text [the author] discusses the history and origins of each form of carving and gives sidelights on American life in the 18th and 19th centuries.” This is an unabridged republication of the 1948 original and a valuable addition to the reference library of anyone who collects American folk art. 8.5” x 11” softback in good condition. 193 pages. FREE media mail shipping and handling for deliveries made within the 50 United States. Rates vary for international mailings.
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Location: Phillipsburg, Kansas
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