The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is written by Carol Crown and published by UNC Press Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1469607999 (ISBN 10) and 9781469607993 (ISBN 13).

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 southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.