| Description |
1 online resource (219 pages) |
| Contents |
Part 1: Making Things. Violations of Standards of Excellence and Preference in Utilitarian Art -- A Strange Rocking Chair ... The Need to Express, the Urge to Create -- Part 2: Sensory Experiences. L.A. Re-dos and Add-ons: Private Space vs. Public Policy -- Modern Arts and Arcane Concepts: Expanding Folk Art Study -- The Proof Is in the Pudding: The Role of Sensation in Food Choice as Revealed by Sensory Deprivation -- Part 3: Art at Work. Creating and Using Argot at the Jayhawk Cafe: Communication, Ambience, and Identity -- A Feeling for Form, as Illustrated by People at Work -- Aesthetics at Work: Art and Ambience in an Organization -- Part 4: Methods and Concepts. Aesthetic Attitude, Judgment, and Response: Definitions and Distinctions -- The Material Culture of Corporate Life -- Preaching What We Practice: Pedagogical Techniques Regarding the Analysis of Objects in Organizations -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
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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Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987, in series: American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture |
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"Multi-User" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Folk art -- United States.
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Material culture -- United States
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Folklore -- United States.
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ART -- Popular Culture.
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ART -- General.
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Folk art
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Folklore
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Manners and customs
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Material culture
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
93009969 |
| ISBN |
9780874213805 |
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0874213800 |
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