Turkish Traditional Art Today

by Henry Glassie

Book Overview

This book presents the living arts and artists of Turkey. It is simultaneously an ethnographic inquiry into the nature of art, an introduction to modern Turkey, and a model study of folk art, combining the current theories of folklore, anthropology, cultural geography, and art history. It is also the most comprehensive analysis yet written of a single artistic tradition and the most complete presentation available of the current practice of the great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253325552
• ISBN13: 9780253325556
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 947 Pages
• Weight: 6.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 8.9" x 10.4"