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Sacred and profane : voice and vision in Southern self-taught art / edited by Carol Crown and Charles Russell.

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Sacred and profane : voice and vision in Southern self-taught art / edited by Carol Crown and Charles Russell.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Crown, Carol.
  • Russell, Charles, 1944-
Description
xxii, 286 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
Summary
"Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art presents historical and cultural analyses that focus on the contexts of the art's creation, as well as on the lives and works of representative artists. The essays here also address the reception of this art by the mainstream art world."--book jacket.
Subject
  • Art and religion > Southern States
  • Art, American > Southern States > 20th century
  • Outsider art > Southern States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Carol Crown and Charles Russell -- Self-taught art, the Bible, and southern creativity / Charles Reagan Wilson -- Sacred spaces and mythmaking: a sociological perspective on southern environmental art / Frédéric Allamel -- More than meets the eye: visions of the sacred in southern self-taught art / Carol Crown -- The music of self-taught artist and evangelist Anderson Johnson / Ann Oppenheimer -- Lacrimae rerum: Eddie Owens Martin's Pasaquan / Dorothy M. Joiner -- George Andrews / Benny Andrews -- Nellie Mae Rowe: multiple contexts, multiple meanings / Lee Kogan -- A curious collaboration: Clementine Hunter's African house murals / Jessica Dallow -- Clementine Hunter: chronicler of African American Catholicism / Cheryl Rivers -- "It's about ideas": the art of Thornton Dial / Charles Russell -- Reinventing Gee's bend quilts in the name of art / Sally Anne Duncan -- Words and music: seeing Traylor in context / Susan M. Crawley -- Bil Traylor and the construction of outsider objectivity / Jennifer P. Borum.
ISBN
  • 1578069165 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781578069163 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006015713
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library