Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular CAAMEMBER commercial and noncommercial formulations

commercial and noncommercial formulations

The author provides a general introduction to landscape drawings and brief explanations of each of the works

24 color and 62 b/w illustrations

and political shifts that mark the transformation from the early-modern to the modern world

Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular CAAMEMBER commercial and noncommercial formulationsEdited by Andrew Perchuk and Rani Singh Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and collector of string figures and other patterns, Harry Smith (19231991) was among the most original creative forces in postwar American art and culture, yet his life and work remain poorly understood. Today he is remembered primarily for his Anthology of American Folk Music (1952)an idiosyncratic collection of early recordings that