Author: Caldwell, Benjamin H., Jr., Robert Hicks, Mark W. Scala
Title: Art of Tennessee
Description: Nashville, TN, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2003. Softbound. Color illustrated black wraps with yellow lettering. 375 pp. 276 color plates. Published in conjunction with a large museum exhibition held in 2003-2004, this wonderful reference contains numerous articles and essays by noted scholars. It includes paintings, decorative and furniture arts, indian and prehistoric artifacts, maps, books, you name it. This will be the standard reference for years to come. Contents as follows: Introduction -- Banjamin H. Caldwell Jr. Robert Hicks, and Mark W. Scala -- Prehistoric Native American art in Tennessee -- Jefferson Chapman -- Young Tennessee and the spirit of America -- Wendell Garrett -- Tennessee Maps -- Ann Harwell Wells -- The material culture of nineteenth-century Tennessee -- Jonathan Leo Fairbanks -- Antebellum furniture -- Robert Hicks -- Sugar chests -- Benjamin H. Caldwell Jr. and Robert Hicks -- William Winchester Jr. cabinetmaker -- C. Tracey Parks -- Richard "Dick" Poynor -- Rick Warwick -- Silver production and importation in Tennessee -- Benjamin H. Caldwell Jr. -- Pottery -- Stephen T. Rogers and Samuel D. Smith -- Nineteenth-century quiltmaking in Tennessee -- Bets Ramsey -- Textile art in Tennessee through the early twentieth century -- Candace J. Adelson -- Antebellum painting -- James A. Hoobler -- Ralph E.W. Earl -- Estill Curtis Pennington -- Tennesseans on the national stage -- James C. Kelly -- Decorative arts at the Hermitage -- Marsha Mullin -- "Holding the line" : William Gilbert Gaul as a military artist -- Dan E. Pomeroy -- Painting in Tennessee, 1865-1920 -- Jack Becker -- Twentieth-century figurative and narrative art -- Celia Walker -- Celebrating the human spirit : Nashville murals by Aaron Douglas, Ben Shahn, and Thomas Hart Benton -- Katie Delmez Welborn -- Structures of recollection : Tennessee photography as document and art -- John Wood -- Tennessee folk art -- Michael Hall -- William Edmondson, sculptor -- Leslie King-Hammond -- Modern art for modern times -- Susan W. Knowles -- Aaron Douglas's Building more stately mansions -- Amy Kirschke -- Contemporary craft -- Lynn Jones Ennis -- New directions : contemporary art in Tennessee -- Mark W. Scala. VG .

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