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One of the wonderful traditions of Christmas is the Nativity. But you don't have to be Christian or a regular church-goer to love these wonderful displays. The creativity and artistry speaks to all ……続きを見る

Patativa do Assaré. Não só popular, não só erudito. Os dois imbricados. Sua obra extrapola as dicotomias abissais. Uma palavra basta: poeta. Poeta que, no princípio, fora violeiro, repentista, corde……続きを見る

Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ……続きを見る

This "jaw-droppingly beautiful book" explores the work and creative process of artists diagnosed with ASD, with a foreword by Temple Grandin ( Library Journal). In this volume, behavior analyst and ……続きを見る

Learn how to bring a Japanese aesthetic into your life with these elegant works of floral art. Japanese kirigami (cut paper) flowers are delicate and beautiful examples of paper craft, but are surpr……続きを見る

Nicknamed the “Island of Lace,” the Caribbean island of Saba is the smallest special municipality in the Netherlands. Folklorist Eric A. Eliason, at the behest of the president of the Saba Lace Ladi……続きを見る

This book is a mosaic or quilt of folk art around the world, from polychrome clay figures made in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla (Mexico) to the baskets Maori women create in New Zealand, from Japanese……続きを見る

This book will inspire and amuse readers and viewers of all ages. We have selected more than100 pieces of our most popular artwork and associated poetry at the request of our online readers to allow……続きを見る

Explore the world of the Fairies through stories, eye witness accounts, art, folk tales, and legends. The author's involvement with the Faeries began with a simple group meditation exercise which ch……続きを見る

"A visual expression combining traditional oil paintings evolving and in some cases transforming technologically into something else." KITCH & ARTE Contemporary Art & Infographics Created by Barbara……続きを見る

Unlike many other handicrafts in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which have long cultural and historical trajectories, Oaxacan woodcarving began in the second half of the twentieth century and has alwa……続きを見る

O. W. “Pappy” Kitchens (1901–1986) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and began painting at age sixty-seven. His self-taught, narrative, visual art springs directly from the oral tradition of……続きを見る

Overlooked in the history of artistic endeavors are the contributions of female writers, painters, and crafters of the Caribbean. The creative works by women from the Caribbean proves to be as remar……続きを見る

Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts starts from the proposition that folkloreーusually thought of in its historical social context as “oral tradition”ーis easily appropriated and recyc……続きを見る

. . . we move to the town of Aconchi on the Río Sonora, where the mission church once contained a life-sized crucifix with a black corpus, known both as Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas . . . and El Cris……続きを見る

This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, s……続きを見る

Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta railroad town on the famous blues Highway ……続きを見る

El arte naif se hizo popular por primera vez a finales del siglo diecinueve. Hasta ese momento, esta forma de expresión creada por artistas sin formación y caracterizados por su espontaneidad y simp……続きを見る

Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners……続きを見る

12個月的神明聖誕千秋、108則神明傳說故事、45尊臺灣人熟悉的神明、17尊動物神獸與器物崇拜 神明的紙上行旅＋傳說與民俗趣聞，用圖像入門臺灣神明世界。 黃震南（藏書家、金鼎獎得主）：神來之筆，勾勒出傳統神祇……続きを見る

This cross-disciplinary book, situated on the periphery of culture, employs humour to better comprehend the arts, the outsider and exclusion, illuminating the ever-changing social landscape, the vag……続きを見る

Un viaggio alla scoperta della cultura e delle tradizioni mediterraenee, greco-romane che ancora rimangono e che vengono rinnovate in una nuova visione del XXI secolo, in maniera da costituire una c……続きを見る

Un viaje para el descubrimiento de la cultura y de las tradiciones mediterráneas, grecas-romanas que todavía permanecen y que se renuevan en una nueva visión del siglo XXI, en manera de constituir u……続きを見る

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A Smithsonian Book of the Year A New York Review of Books “Best of 2020” Selection A New York Times Best Art Book of the Year An Art Newspaper Book o……続きを見る

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art explores the effects of Queensland government policies on urban First Nation artists. While such art has often been misinterpreted as derivative lesser copi……続きを見る

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. The book, the first in a fi……続きを見る

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists h……続きを見る

THE ART OF ROZZ WILLIAMS - FROM CHRISTIAN DEATH TO DEATH New revised book with 8 extra pages includes updated discography, new art images and foreword by Rikk Agnew. The book features the work of th……続きを見る

This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which ……続きを見る

Speaking with Pictures offers a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. It foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its figurative modes and the ways in ……続きを見る