Henry Glassie

Broschiertes Buch

Daniel Johnston

A Portrait of the Artist as a Potter in North Carolina

Beschreibung

Over the years, during a steady stream of intimate interviews, Glassie gathered the understanding that enabled him to compose this portrait of Daniel Johnston, a young artist who makes great pots in the eastern Piedmont of North Carolina.

Autor

HENRY GLASSIE, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has done fieldwork on five continents, written twenty books, and received many awards for his work, including the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Haney Prize in the Social Sciences, the Cummings Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, the Nigerian Studies Association Book Award, the Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award from the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, the Friend of Bangladesh Award from the Federation of Bangladeshi Associations, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Folklore Society, and the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for a distinguished career of humanistic scholarship. Three of his books - Passing the Time in Ballymenone, The Spirit of Folk Art, and Turkish Traditional Art Today - were named among the notable books of the year by the New York Times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 180mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780253048431
• ISBN-10: 0253048435
• Artikelnr.: 57691619