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Exploring Folk Art [PDF ebook]

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Jones explores the human impulse to create, the necessity for having aesthetically satisfying experiences, and the craving for tradition. He also considers topics such as making chairs, remodeling houses, using and preserving soda-fountain slang, preparing and eating food, and sculpting lifelike figures out of cement.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780874213805 ● Publisher Utah State University Press ● Published 1993 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5001109 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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