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Immerse yourself in more than 400 previously unpublished colour photographs of Canada's disappearing traditional folk art. The authors' discovery of distinctive objects from across Canada inspired them to re-classify folk art, and to analyze and interpret their examples in 17 thematic chapters. The "aesthetic of the everyday" of Canada's material heritage is presented through paintings and carvings, quilts and rugs, tables and trade signs-just to mention a few. These traditional art forms of diverse community groups express a decorative cultural identity, documented through the unique lens of photographer James A. Chambers. Historians, curators, collectors, designers, and dealers, as well as anyone who appreciates material culture, will want to have this collection in their libraries.
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A study of Canadian folk art to 1950.
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John Fleming, Michael Rowan, and James Chambers have made use of their extensive networks, word of mouth, and even fortuitous accidents to discover and record well over 425 distinctive examples of Canadian folk art. They have organized the book into seventeen affinities, which emphasize folk art's multiple manifestations and its "aesthetic of the everyday." Canada's material heritage is told through paintings and carvings, boxes and game boards, quilts and rugs, tables and trade signs-to mention a few. Readers will gain an intense appreciation of the understated particulars of Canada's history and evolving cultural identity. Canadianists, historians, curators, collectors, and dealers, as well as anyone who appreciates folk art, will want to have this sumptuous book close at hand. Front Flap: "A daring and beautifully articulated re-examination of Canada's material heritage with close to 500 eye-catching images." Dr. Robert Klymasz, curator emeritus, Canadian Museum of Civilization. "Folk art requires no formal training, and is easy to relate to because its immediacy in the objects and activities of our daily routines is largely an unrequited presence that asks nothing of us in return. Our intention is to provoke new ways and perspectives upon these concrete manifestations of the urge to create and shape our surroundings expressed by the makers of folk art objects within the spaces of our physical existence as measured by the human concepts of time, space, and three dimensionality." From the Introduction Back Flap: John A. Fleming is Professor Emeritus in the Department of French and the Centre for Comparative Literature, and a former Director of the Museum Studies Program, all at the University of Toronto. Michael J. Rowan is a graduate in Fine Arts, and has been an antiques dealer, appraiser, and museum consultant since 1973. He specializes in folk art and ethnic furniture. He lives in Green River near Toronto. James A. Chambers has been a professional photographer and photo-based artist for more than 35 years. A noted photographer for art books, he was formerly head photographer at the Art Gallery of Ontario. He lives in Hamilton. In 2004 the University of Alberta Press published their first collaboration, Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians.
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- PublisherUniversity of Alberta Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0888646305
- ISBN 13 9780888646309
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages600
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