Author: Neal, Avon ; Ann Parker
Title: Ephemeral Folk Figures : Scarecrows, Harvest Figures, and Snowmen
Description: New York, NY, Clarkson N Potter, 1969. Hardcover. Color illustrated dustjacket with white and orange text, red cloth-bound boards with gilt illustration and text on spine. (6) 7-176 pp. Features many color and b+w illustrations. "Every year tens of thousands of intriguing life-sized effigies are created by American Folk artists in the form of scarecrows, harvest figures, and snowmen. The great majority of these people are totally unaware that they are participants in a contemporary folk art tradition. Until now their efforts have gone virtually unrecorded. The brief existence, the nature of their materials, and, mainly, the very spirit in which these spontaneous human likenesses were constructed, formerly condemned them as unworthy of serious consideration. They were declasse and truly ephemeral. This is the first book to introduce these naive creations as folk art." - abstract. Good, dj has minor wear, two small tears in pages near rear of book .

Keywords: American Art ; Figurative Art ; ;


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