TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Michael TI - Exploring folk art: twenty years of thought on craft, work, and aesthetics SN - 0874213800 AV - NK805 .J665 1993eb U1 - 306.4306.47306.47 PY - 1993/// CY - Logan PB - Utah State University Press KW - Folk art KW - United States KW - Folklore KW - Material culture KW - ART KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Popular Culture KW - fast KW - Manners and customs KW - Social life and customs KW - "Multi-User" KW - Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987, in series: American material culture and folklife. Masters of material culture KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt46nz8v ER -