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Exploring Folk Art

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Michael Owen Jones
1993
Published by: Utah State University Press
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Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

pp. v-vi

Foreword

pp. vii-viii

Prologue

pp. 1-10

Part One: Making Things

1. Violations of Standards of Excellence and Preference in Utilitarian Art

pp. 13-40

2. A Strange Rocking Chair … The Need to Express, the Urge to Create

pp. 41-56

Part Two: Sensory Experiences

3. L.A. Re-dos and Add-ons: Private Space vs. Public Policy

pp. 59-80

4. Modern Arts and Arcane Concepts: Expanding Folk Art Study

pp. 81-96

5. The Proof Is in the Pudding: The Role of Sensation in Food Choice as Revealed by Sensory Deprivation

pp. 97-106

Part Three: Art at Work

6. Creating and Using Argot at the Jayhawk Cafe: Communication, Ambience, and Identity

pp. 109-118

7. A Feeling for Form, as Illustrated by People at Work

pp. 119-132

8. Aesthetics at Work: Art and Ambience in an Organization

pp. 133-158

Part Four: Methods and Concepts

9. Aesthetic Attitude, Judgment, and Response: Definitions and Distinctions

pp. 161-176

10. The Material Culture of Corporate Life

pp. 177-186

11. Preaching What We Practice: Pedagogical Techniques Regarding the Analysis of Objects in Organizations

pp. 187-196

Epilogue

pp. 197-204

References

pp. 205-214

Index

pp. 215-219
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