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The NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA of SOUTHERN CULTURE VOLUME 23 : FOLK ART This page intentionally left blank Volumes to appear in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture are: Agriculture and Industry Law and Politics Art and Architecture Literature Education Media Environment Music Ethnicity Myth, Manners, and Memory Folk Art Race Folklife Religion Foodways Science and Medicine Gender Social Class Geography Sports and Recreation History Urbanization Language Violence The NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA of SOUTHERN CULTURE CHARLES REAGAN WILSON General Editor JAMES G. THOMAS JR. Managing Editor ANN J. ABADIE Associate Editor VOLUME 23 Folk Art CAROL CROWN & CHERYL RIVERS Volume Editors Sponsored by THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHERN CULTURE at the University of Mississippi THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS Chapel Hill This book was published with the generous assistance of JOHN JERIT. The Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press provided additional support for publication of this book. © 2013 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by Richard Hendel Set in Minion types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Folk art / Carol Crown and Cheryl Rivers, volume editors. p. cm. — (The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 23) “Published with the assistance of John Jerit and of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.” “Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8078-3442-8 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8078-7174-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Folk art—Southern States—Encyclopedias. 2. Outsider art— Southern States—Encyclopedias. 3. Art, American—Southern States—Encyclopedias. 4. Architecture—Southern States— Encyclopedias. I. Crown, Carol. II. Rivers, Cheryl, 1949–. III. University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture. IV. Series. F209 .N47 2006 vol. 23 [NK811] 975.003 s—dc22 2012473073 The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1989. cloth(cid:28)17 16 15 14 13(cid:28)5 4 3 2 1 paper(cid:28)17 16 15 14 13(cid:28)5 4 3 2 1 Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all. WILLIAM FAULKNER Absalom, Absalom! This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS General Introduction xiii Landscape Painting (16th–19th Introduction xix Centuries) 113 Landscape Painting (20th and 21st FOLK ART OF THE AMERICAN Centuries) 119 SOUTH 1 Latino Folk Art 125 Memory Jugs 131 African American Expressions 43 Memory Painting 133 African American Protective Arts Moravian Material Culture 138 50 Music and Musical Instruments 139 Art Cars 54 Outsider Art 143 Art Education 56 Photography, Vernacular 146 Baskets, Lowcountry 58 Portraiture, to 1790 149 Bottle Trees 60 Portraiture, 1790–1850 152 Cajun and Creole Folk Art 61 Pottery 157 Calligraphy and Penmanship 64 Prison Art 162 Canes 66 Quilting, African American 164 Caribbean American Folk Art 67 Quilts, General 167 Craft Revival 71 Quilts and Embroidery, 20th Century Decoys 73 172 Environments 74 Religious Ephemera 175 Eroticism 79 Roadside Art 179 Face Jugs 80 Rugs, Handsewn and Hooked 181 Festivals and Fairs 81 Schoolgirl Samplers and Fraktur 86 Embroidered Pictures 184 Fraternal Societies 89 Silhouettes 187 Furniture, Decorated and Painted Soldier Art of the Civil War 188 91 Theorem Painting 189 Furniture, Vernacular 95 Toys 191 Furniture, Vernacular, of Texas 97 Trade Signs 192 Gravestone Carving 100 Tramp Art 197 Interior Painting, Decorative 103 Visionary Art 198 Jewish Ceremonial and Decorative Weathervanes, Whirligigs, and Arts 109 Whimseys 201
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