Sacred and profane : voice and vision in Southern self-taught art

Title

Sacred and profane : voice and vision in Southern self-taught art / edited by Carol Crown and Charles Russell.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Description

xxii, 286 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Other contributors

Crown, Carol.
Russell, Charles, 1944-

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Carol Crown and Charles Russell
• Self-taught art, the Bible, and southern creativity / Charles Reagan Wilson
• Sacred spaces and mythmaking: a sociological perspective on southern environmental art / Frédéric Allamel
• More than meets the eye: visions of the sacred in southern self-taught art / Carol Crown
• The music of self-taught artist and evangelist Anderson Johnson / Ann Oppenheimer
• Lacrimae rerum: Eddie Owens Martin's Pasaquan / Dorothy M. Joiner
• George Andrews / Benny Andrews
• Nellie Mae Rowe: multiple contexts, multiple meanings / Lee Kogan
• A curious collaboration: Clementine Hunter's African house murals / Jessica Dallow
• Clementine Hunter: chronicler of African American Catholicism / Cheryl Rivers
• "It's about ideas": the art of Thornton Dial / Charles Russell
• Reinventing Gee's bend quilts in the name of art / Sally Anne Duncan
• Words and music: seeing Traylor in context / Susan M. Crawley
• Bil Traylor and the construction of outsider objectivity / Jennifer P. Borum.

Kinsey subjects

Art--United States.
Religion.

ISBN

1578069165 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781578069163 (cloth : alk. paper)