![A Kind of Archeology: Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976 [Hardcover] Stillinger, Elizabeth](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/91-oQqA27sL._SY425_-1.jpg)
Description
This book explores the world of American folk art collectorspeople who saw the beauty and value of the folk-art portraits, weathervanes, and carvings that mainstream America had hitherto relegated to attics, barns, and dust bins. Although pioneer collectors sought out and preserved objects that are today regarded as icons, little has been known of their motivations, aesthetics, or display techniques.Unlike the mainly white, professional, male collectors of furniture, silver, and other traditional decorative arts who were the subject of Elizabeth Stillinger’s classic study
![Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film [Paperback] Schmenner, Will and Granof, Corinne](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/81D2s-ypoAL._SY466_-1-300x450.jpg)
![George Inness and the Visionary Landscape [Hardcover] Bell, Adrienne Baxter](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/615PhhKthsL._SY342_-1.jpg)
![Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot [Hardcover] Asia Society; Chiu, Melissa and Yun, Michelle](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/61YM9OYqnL._SY466_-1-300x450.jpg)
![Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series) [Hardcover] Albright, Daniel](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/71tyEo5BxYL._SY385_-1.jpg)
![A Divine Light : Northern Renaissance Paintings From the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery [Paperback] Kennedy, Trinita & John Nolan](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/517Sf6pRpFL._SY342_-1.jpg)
![A Diagnosis, 1998-2001 (1.1) [Unknown Binding] Stait Reagan; Anderson; Soler; Ave Pianos; Kesminas; Roban Drape; Kelly; Stevenson; Christoph Keller and Schlegell](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/919wmsW-kGL._SY466_-1-300x450.jpg)
![Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions [Paperback] Nancy Berlinger and Edward S. Cooke, Jr.](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/A10vfn5LKIL._SY425_-1-300x425.jpg)
