Research Catalog

Title

Just above the water : Florida folk art / Kristin G. Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas.

Author

Congdon, Kristin G.

Publication

Jackson. : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bucuvalas, Tina

Description

xvi, 288 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Summary

"Florida has an abundance of excellent artists whose work reflects the traditions of their many diverse communities. Yet there has been, until now, no major publication that focuses on the state's visual folk arts and folk artists." "Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art includes an overall view of folk arts in Florida and individual profiles of over seventy artists, including Mary Proctor, Mario Sanchez, Nicholas Toth, Ruby C. Williams, and Purvis Young. The work of painters, sculptors, master saddlemakers, iconographers, and instrument makers is illustrated here in more the 200 black-and-white and color photographs, including more than 100 photos by noted photographer Bud Lee." "Some consider folk art to be art created by self-taught individuals working in an idiosyncratic style, while others believe it to be the expression of traditional forms. Kristen G. Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas argue that artists of both types express innovation and tradition. In many instances, a close examination of the artists and their work reveals much about Florida's cultural history. The artists clearly are not naive, simple, primitive, or quaint. Like the work they produce, they are sophisticated, expressing their creativity in relation to their own complex backgrounds."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Artisans, société coopérative d'assurance-vie > Florida > Biography
• Folk art > Florida
• Folk artists > Florida > Biography
• Artisans > Florida > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Michael Owen Jones -- Overview. Florida's land, people, and artistic traditions -- Definitional issues : tradition and innovation -- Artists. Jesse J. Aaron -- Carl Allen -- Jack "Mr. B" Beverland -- Lillian Bolstad -- Eileen Brautman -- Lil Brodeur and Wally Brodeur -- Lucreaty Clark -- Jerry Coker -- Earl Cunningham -- Carole Demesmin -- Brian Dowdell -- Edouard Duval Carrié -- Joe E. Elmore -- Eusebio Escobar -- Amma Essandoh -- Cardell Evans -- Donald "Dr. Fergie" Ferguson -- John Filippakis -- James Gibson -- Haitian art environment : Tap Tap Restaurant -- Alyne Harris -- Margaret Horvath -- Father Alexander Jasiukowicz -- Nicario Jiménez -- Blake Kral -- Mieko Kubota -- Rene Latour -- Ginger Lavoie -- Kazuko Law -- Woodie Long -- Langston Longley and the Bahamas Junkanoo Revue -- Konstantinos Maris -- Nadia Michael -- Dick Moshier -- Henry Ohumukini Jr. -- William "Bill" O'Keefe -- Jimmie O'Toole Osceola -- Stuart Pacetti -- Connie Palmer -- Stanley Papio -- "Diamond" Jim Parker -- Carrine Porter -- Mary Proctor -- Ramón Puig -- Taft Richardson -- Robert Roberg -- Llewellyn Roberts -- George Robinson -- Robert Rudd.
• Antonio Salas -- O.L. "Geech" Samuels -- Mario Sanchez -- Wayne Scott and Marty Scott -- The Sculls -- Glen Simmons -- Ray Singleton -- Steve Phillip Stavrakis -- Rob Storter -- Melvin "Pop" Thayer -- Sylvia Thompson -- Ezequiel Torres -- Rosa Ena Torruella -- Nicholas Toth -- Almann Ulysse -- Manuel Velazquez -- Margot "Maggie" Warren -- Bettye Williams -- Ruby C. Williams -- Purvis Young -- Jan M. Zebrowski -- Brian Zepeda and Pedro Zepeda -- Kurt Zimmerman.

ISBN

1578067782 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005009171

OCLC

• 58842956
• SCSB-11712685

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library