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American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculptures
American Vernacular New Discoveries in Folk Self-Taught and Outsider Sculptures Author:Frank Maresca, Roger Ricco, Margit Rowell This groundbreaking book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's rich heritage of vernacular art out of the antiques arena and the specialty museum and into today's art world. AMERICAN VERNACULAR presents hundreds of newly identified and never-before-published objects, from carnival figures to religious totems, from antiqu... more »e trade signs to spectacular examples of hand-carved canes. The book reveals the powerful strains of imagination that have shaped the American visual landscape and continue to nourish cutting-edge artists today.« less