Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art"Offers a new approach to American folk art, suggests that folk artists were influenced by fine art, and attempts to describe the context and meaning of the paintings."--Google books. |
Contents
The Plain Mode and the Evolution of Talent | 1 |
Art by the Book | 34 |
Plain Painting in NineteenthCentury | 55 |
Copyright | |
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