For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago - Rilegato

Barter, Judith A.; Obniski, Monica

 
9780300179729: For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
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ISBN 10: 0300179723 ISBN 13: 9780300179729
Casa editrice: Art Inst of Chicago, 2012

Sinossi

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. For Kith and Kin provides an introduction to that collection through more than sixty of its most outstanding objects. Selected by premier American art scholar Judith A. Barter, the majority of these objects have never before been published.

In a groundbreaking opening essay, Barter revisits the earliest days of folk-art collecting in Chicago, beginning in the 1890s. She pays special attention to the passionate individuals who sought out unique and expressive examples of American folk art, building private collections that they later donated to the Art Institute. Including beautiful reproductions and detailed entries for each of the sixty-one objects it features, this book highlights an array of masterworks such as "primitive" New England portraits, a face jug from South Carolina, New Mexican ceramics, a weathervane, and ship figureheads.



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Informazioni sull?autore

Judith A. Barter is chair and Field-McCormick Curator of American Art, and Monica Obniski is assistant curator in the Department of American Art, both at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Editore
Art Inst of Chicago
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300179723
ISBN 13 
9780300179729
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
120
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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