Exploring Folk Art

by Michael Owen Jones

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874211654
• ISBN13: 9780874211658
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher