The new encyclopedia of Southern cultureCarol Crown and Cheryl Rivers, volume editors.

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and sou

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