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

Other author Crown, Carol.
Other author Russell, Charles, 1944-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Descriptionxxii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subjects
Outsider art--Southern States.
Art, American--Southern States. --20th century.
Art and religion--Southern States.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.
LCCN 2006015713
ISBN1578069165 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781578069163 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks N6520 .S23 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold