Exploring Folk Art

by Michael Jones

Overview

Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874213805
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1993
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword Bronner Simon J.
Prologue
Part One: Making Things
1 Violations of Standards of Excellence and Preference in Utilitarian Art
2 A Strange Rocking Chair … The Need to Express, the Urge to Create
Part Two: Sensory Experiences
3 L.A. Re-dos and Add-ons: Private Space vs. Public Policy
4 Modern Arts and Arcane Concepts: Expanding Folk Art Study
5 The Proof Is in the Pudding: The Role of Sensation in Food Choice as Revealed by Sensory Deprivation
Part Three: Art at Work
6 Creating and Using Argot at the Jayhawk Cafe: Communication, Ambience, and Identity
7 A Feeling for Form, as Illustrated by People at Work
8 Aesthetics at Work: Art and Ambience in an Organization
Part Four: Methods and Concepts
9 Aesthetic Attitude, Judgment, and Response: Definitions and Distinctions
10 The Material Culture of Corporate Life
11 Preaching What We Practice: Pedagogical Techniques Regarding the Analysis of Objects in Organizations
Epilogue
References
Index