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Author Bronner, Simon J

Title The carver's art : crafting meaning from wood / Simon J. Bronner
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note to Paperback Edition; Preface; Illustration Credits; Prologue; CHAPTER ONE: Part of You Is in a Carving; CHAPTER TWO: Bet You Don't Know How I Made This; CHAPTER THREE: How Do You Figure It, That Darn Stuff?; Epilogue; Ten Years Later; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all ""made with just a pocketknife""--Are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for their makers, for their viewers, for our society? Simon J. Bronner portrays four wood carvers in southern Indiana, men who had been transplanted from the rural landscapes of their youth to industrial towns. After retiring, they took up a skill they remembered from childhood. Bronner discusses how creativity helped these men adjust to change and how vie
Analysis Chains Folklore
Folk art Indiana Psychological aspects
Wood-carvers Indiana Interviews
Wood-carving Indiana Psychological aspects
Notes A new and updated ed. of: Chain carvers : Lexington, Kentucky, 1985
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Wood-carvers -- Indiana -- Interviews
Wood-carving -- Indiana -- Psychological aspects
Folk art -- Indiana -- Psychological aspects
Chains -- Folklore
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Carving.
Chains
Folk art -- Psychological aspects
Wood-carvers
Wood-carving -- Psychological aspects
Holzschnitzer
Biografie
Holzschnitzerei
Erlebnisbericht
Houtsnijkunst.
Sculpture sur bois -- États-Unis -- Indiana.
Indiana
Indiana
Genre/Form Folklore
Interviews
Form Electronic book
Author Bronner, Simon J. Chain carvers
ISBN 9780813147864
0813147867