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Morton, Erin, 1981-
Subjects
Folk art -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century
Folk art -- Economic aspects -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century
Folk artists -- History -- 20th century
Folk artists -- Nova Scotia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Nova Scotia -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century
Nova Scotia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Morton, Erin, 1981-
Folk art -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century
Folk art -- Economic aspects -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century
Folk artists -- History -- 20th century
Folk artists -- Nova Scotia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Nova Scotia -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century
Nova Scotia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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For folk's sake : art and economy in twentieth-century Nova Scotia / Erin Morton
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Morton, Erin, 1981-
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
Call #:
745
.09716
M889f
Subjects
Folk art -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century
Folk art -- Economic aspects -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century
Folk artists -- History -- 20th century
Folk artists -- Nova Scotia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Nova Scotia -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century
Nova Scotia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Series
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
ISBN:
9780773548121 (pbk.)
9780773548114 (hc.)
Description:
xviii, 405 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Issued also in electronic format
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:
"Folk art emerged in twentieth-century Nova Scotia not as an accident of history, but in tandem with cultural policy developments that shaped art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. For Folk's Sake charts how woodcarvings and paintings by well-known and obscure self-taught makers--and their connection to handwork, local history, and place--soothed the public's nostalgia for a simpler past. Addressing modernism as it pertains to the genealogy of folk art and late twentieth-century crises in capitalism, Erin Morton places artists like Maud Lewis and Collins Eisenhauer within histories of cultural and economic development in the province. Engaging the national and transnational developments that moulded public and academic criteria, she examines the ways in which a conceptual category took concrete, material form. As folk art entered the public collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the private collections of professors at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, it evolved under the direction of collectors and curators who sought it according to a particular modernist aesthetic language. Illustrated with over seventy images, For Folk's Sake interrogates the emotive pull of folk art to radically reconstruct the relationships that emerged between relatively impoverished self-taught artists, a new brand of middle-class collector, and academically trained professors and curators in Nova Scotia's most important art institutions."--Provided by publisher.
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