Bibliograph

Folk art of Spain and the Americas, El Alma del Pueblo, edited and with an introduction by Marion Oettinger, Jr. ; translated by Mervyn Samuel

Type

Label

Folk art of Spain and the Americas, El Alma del Pueblo, edited and with an introduction by Marion Oettinger, Jr. ; translated by Mervyn Samuel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Folk art of Spain and the Americas

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

36884204

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Marion Oettinger, Jr. ; translated by Mervyn Samuel

Sub title

El Alma del Pueblo

Summary

The 124 paintings and objects featured here, mostly in color, span almost five hundred years and have been drawn from museums and private collections from every region of Spain as well as Latin America and the United States. The works demonstrate the vibrancy and appeal of objects designed to be purely decorative as well as those fashioned to fill specific needs. They range from wooden bread stamps used to distinguish a family's loaves and intricately crafted model ships offered to saints in thanks for deliverance from dangerous seas to glazed pottery introduced by Spaniards centuries ago and reinterpreted in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Ecuador

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