For Folk's Sake: Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Erin Morton fibre art ta'n wejiaqel a'tukuaqnn Wabanaki

ta'n wejiaqel a'tukuaqnn Wabanaki

Woodcuts by: Burland Murphy

including the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

ISBN: 9781459504530

Mixed media collage for the young and young at heart

For Folk's Sake: Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Erin Morton fibre art ta'n wejiaqel a'tukuaqnn WabanakiA radical re examination of art in Nova Scotia and the place of folk art in the cultural hierarchy of the twentieth century. Folk art emerged in twentieth century Nova Scotia not as an accident of history, but in tandem with cultural policy developments that shaped art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. For Folks Sake charts how woodcarvings and paintings by well known and obscure self taught makers and their connection to