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04295aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 FD6AA19C071D11E88A431B0A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180201010217 008 160706s2016 meu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0972848436 020 $a 9780972848435 035 $a (OCoLC)953100167 040 $a CBY $e rda $c CBY $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 14 $a NK805 $b .U83 2016 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/N 082 04 $a 745.0973 $2 23 110 2 $a Colby College. $b Museum of Art, $e host institution. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81111776 245 12 $a A usable past : $b American folk art at the Colby College Museum of Art / $c edited by Lauren Lessing. 264 1 $a New York : $b D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, $c [2016] 300 $a vii, 163 pages : $b chiefly illustrations (color and black-and-white) ; $c 31 cm 500 $a "This publication accompanies the exhibition A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art, organized by the Colby College Museum of Art, and on view from July 9, 2016 to January 8, 2017." -- title page verso. 500 $a Exhibition curated by Lauren Lessing. 500 $a A Usable Past was generously funded by the Mirken Family Publication Fund -- title page verso. 508 $a Essays by Lauren Lessing, Seth A. Thayer, Jr., Elizabeth Finch, Tanya Sheehan. 508 $a Entries by Margaret Aiken, Hannah W. Blunt, Paige M. Doore, Anna Fan, Elizabeth Finch, Andrew Parker Gelfand, Shalini Le Gall, Lauren Lessing, Justin McCann, Ramey Mize, Charlotte Emans Moore, Francisca V. Morga LoÌpez, Nina Roth-Wells, Terri Sabatos, Tanya Sheehan, Earl H. Smith, Elizabeth A. Spear, Seth A. Thayer, Jr., Matt Timme, Diana Tuite, Veronica Vesnaver, Marina Wells. 505 0 $a Director's foreword / Sharon Corwin -- Introduction: creating a usable past / Lauren Lessing -- "An era of jetteÌ-propulsion:" Edith and Ellerton JetteÌ collect for Colby / Seth A. Thayer, Jr. -- A certain kinship: folk art and modernism at Colby College / Elizabeth Finch -- Redrawing the lines: American folk and academic portraiture / Tanya Sheehan -- Selections from the collection -- Notes for catalogue entries -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Image credits -- Museum Board of Governors and staff. 520 $a Produced and circulated outside the elite sphere of fine art, folk art appealed to the middle-class Americans who were eager to express their identities, interests, and social ambitions through these decorative, vernacular objects. This catalogue presents new research on the Colby College Museum of Art's important collection of paintings, sculptures, needleworks, and works on paper by self-trained artists working primarily in the eastern part of the United States during the long nineteenth century. Essays by Seth A. Thayer, Jr., and Elizabeth Finch investigate the formation, evolving interpretation, and intended uses of the American Heritage Collection of Edith Kemper JetteÌ and Ellerton Marcel JetteÌ - one of the earliest gifts to enter the Colby Museum and the basis of its folk art collection. A third essay by Tanya Sheehan explores the complex relationship between folk art, fine art, and American visual culture. More than sixty catalogue entries by scholars, curators, and Colby students identify previously unknown makers and subjects, uncover new information about the construction and original contexts of works in the collection, and enlarge our understanding of what these artworks meant for the people who made and displayed them. 650 0 $a Folk art $z United States $v Exhibitions. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008120756 650 0 $a Art, American $v Exhibitions. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101386 650 7 $a Art, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815895 650 7 $a Folk art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00928587 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Exhibition catalogs. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1424028 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1424028 700 1 $a Lessing, Lauren, $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009021321 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214011853.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FD6AA19C071D11E88A431B0A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search