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Madaba: A Rest Stop on the Map Of the Middle East
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NOT ALL visitors to Palestine are comfortable going through Tel Aviv. And not all those traveling through Jordan are comfortable in Amman, a large, mostly modern city that does not lend itself easily to overnight acquaintance.
The Jordanian town of Madaba, on the other hand, can be an extraordinarily pleasant beginning or end to that trip. Not only is it small, compact, friendly, and historically significant, it's actually closer than Amman to the Queen Alia Airport. It's cheaper, too....
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Madaba: A Rest Stop on the Map Of the Middle East
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
; NOT ALL visitors to Palestine are comfortable going through Tel Aviv. And not all those traveling through Jordan are comfortable in Amman, a large, mostly modern city that does not lend itself easily to overnight acquaintance. The Jordanian town of Madaba, on the other hand, can be an
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Big-spending collectors warm to folk art fever
Chicago Sun-Times
; For collectors in the antiques world, folk art is the ultimate high, the pricey status symbol that makes a bold statement. After all, who can overlook a couple of weather vanes or massive whirligigs dominating a living room? It's hard not to give these often childish appearing objects due respect
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Folk art beauty in the eye of the collector
Chicago Sun-Times
; Folk art is called "naive" and often rightly so. Since it became a fashionable collectible in the 1970s, a wide range of categories such as sculpture, painting and pottery-old and new-became classified as "folk art." You can spend a little or a lot. However, there are several things to consider
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Nave Museum's display 'reaches out to the beholder': Folk Art exhibit runs Friday through Jan. 14.
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)
; ... this story at www.VictoriaAdvocate.com. Copyright (c) 2006, Victoria Advocate, Texas Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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Folk art as communal culture and art proper
Art Education
; Attitudes about folk art have undergone a remarkable transformation, from characterizations as simplistic, primitive, and obscure a century ago, to descriptions as refined, com plex, and important. Interest in folk art reflects a growing concern not only for the nature and value of folk art but
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Recapturing America's heritage: retailer's guide to folk art.
Gifts & Decorative Accessories
; Recapturing America's Heritage Retailer's Guide to Folk Art In the midst of a society surfeit of electronic gadgetry and computer-age products; at a time when many Americans have lost their ancestral production skills, consumers are opting for merchandise that reflects a sense of craftsmanship,
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The invention and uses of folk art in Germany: wooden toys from the Erzgebirge mountains.(Research Article)
Folklore
; Abstract This article attempts to historicise the concept of folk art using the example of wooden toys from the Erzgebirge mountains to show that it was invented by cultural elites as a marketing concept at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to support a domestic industy caught in
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Folk art fanatics
Southwest Art
; An inside look at the home of noted collectors and authors Chuck and Jan Rosenak WHEN HER FAVORITE DUCK DECOY ARTIST DIED IN 1946, THE FOUNDER of the Museum of American Folk Art wrote that folk art had ceased to exist. The so-called demise of folk art was blamed on the new reliance on machine-made
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Folk Art and Artists: The series
Western Folklore
; Folk Art and Artists: The Series The Holiday Yards of Florencio Morales: "El Hombre de las Banderas". By Amy V. Kitchener. 1994. Pp. 72. $29.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper) Santeria Garments and Altar Speaking Without a Voice By Ysamur Flores-Pena and Roberta J. Evanchuk. 1994. Pp. 72. $29.50 (cloth);
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PFALTZGRAFF HOLDS A FESTIVAL TO FETE 20 YEARS OF FOLK ART.
HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
; ... around the country, many of whom are members of the Folk Art News (FAN) club, gathered for the festival, which began with a luncheon ... real eye-opener, said Sandy Anderson, editor of the Folk Art News quarterly newsletter. I had no idea it was so involved to make ...
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