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- catalog abstract "Most streets and highways offer any number of folk figures to anyone who cares to see them. A few-like snowmen or scarecrows are ephemeral; but most of these folk forms have a longer life expectancy, and some like weathervanes or trade signs are older than the nation. Their makers seldom thought of themselves as artists, but when you compare such familiar forms as a pavement lid, a gravestone, or a neon sign with other of the same kind, you can readily see that one is better than another, and that the best are very good art indeed. The succinct text for A Carrot For A Nose and the exceptional illustrations have been brought together by a specialist on American folk art in a manner that invites you to see and judge for yourself the folk forms that are all around you. Working with photographs by some America's great photographers and with drawings from the celebrated index of American design, he explores why and how some of these forms came to be, and he considers their variety as expression of their maker's artistry. As he puts it-you can start out thinking about why a snowman has a carrot for a nose and end up with an aesthetic experience.".
- catalog contributor b880543.
- catalog created "[1974]".
- catalog date "1974".
- catalog date "[1974]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1974]".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Weathervanes -- Whirligigs -- Pavement lids -- Trade signs -- Gravestones -- Decoys -- Carousel figures -- More about snowmen and scarecrows.".
- catalog description "Most streets and highways offer any number of folk figures to anyone who cares to see them. A few-like snowmen or scarecrows are ephemeral; but most of these folk forms have a longer life expectancy, and some like weathervanes or trade signs are older than the nation. Their makers seldom thought of themselves as artists, but when you compare such familiar forms as a pavement lid, a gravestone, or a neon sign with other of the same kind, you can readily see that one is better than another, and that the best are very good art indeed. The succinct text for A Carrot For A Nose and the exceptional illustrations have been brought together by a specialist on American folk art in a manner that invites you to see and judge for yourself the folk forms that are all around you. Working with photographs by some America's great photographers and with drawings from the celebrated index of American design, he explores why and how some of these forms came to be, and he considers their variety as expression of their maker's artistry. As he puts it-you can start out thinking about why a snowman has a carrot for a nose and end up with an aesthetic experience.".
- catalog extent "70 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Carrot for a nose.".
- catalog identifier "0684136635 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Carrot for a nose.".
- catalog issued "1974".
- catalog issued "[1974]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Scribner,".
- catalog relation "Carrot for a nose.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Folk art United States.".
- catalog subject "NK805.G55 1974".
- catalog subject "Primitivism in art United States.".
- catalog subject "Sculpture, American.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Weathervanes -- Whirligigs -- Pavement lids -- Trade signs -- Gravestones -- Decoys -- Carousel figures -- More about snowmen and scarecrows.".
- catalog title "A carrot for a nose : the form of folk sculpture on America's city streets and country roads / M. J. Gladstone.".
- catalog type "text".