Description
Published by the Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, 1988, in connection with an exhibition held Oct 16, 1998 - June 25, 1989 Soft cover, 196 pp.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy pictorial soft covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Contents include: Lenders to the Exhibition; Foreword and Acknowledgements by Jane Becker and Barbara Franco; New England Prologue: Thoreau, Antimodernism, and Folk Culture by Dillon Bustin; Introduction by Alan Jabbour; Revealing Traditions: The Politics of Culture and Community in America, 1888-1988 by Jane S. Becker; Rough Sincerities: William Wells Newell and the Discovery of Folklore in Late-19th Century America by Roger D. Abrahams; Poor Lo and Dusky Ramona: Scenes From an Album of Indian America by Rayna Green; Packaging the Folk: Tradition and Amnesia in American Advertising, 1880 - 1940 by Jackson Lears; Modernism, Edith Halpert, Holger Cahill, and the Fine Art Meaning of American Folk Art by Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. and Claudine Weatherford; When We Were Good: The Folk Revival by Robert Cantwell; Contributors