The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictIn 50 years of travel, interior designer Alexander Girard amassed an impressive 100,000-work collection of cross-cultural folk art, which he subsequently donated to the Museum of International Folk ... Read full review
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| Title | The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art |
| Authors | Henry H. Glassie, Museum of New Mexico |
| Photographs by | Henry H. Glassie, Michel Monteaux |
| Illustrated by | Michel Monteaux |
| Contributor | Michel Monteaux |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Abrams, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 14, 2007 |
| Length | 276 pages |
| Subjects | › Architecture / General Art / Folk & Outsider Art |
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