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Celebrating
Florida Works of
Art from the Edited by Gary R. Libby "Readers will find themselves entranced by each painting and comparing it to the Florida they know today. . . . [These paintings] entice us to imagine what our Florida was like before Disney. The fact that well-known painters such as Tiffany, Catlin, Curtis, Herzog, Heade and Homer are represented in the collection is icing on the cake."—Florida Heritage 1996. 144 pp. 9 X 11.5. 66 color plates. ISBN 0-8130-1477-8 Cloth, $39.95 Pacheco’s Art of Ybor City Ferdie Pacheco "Ferdie Pacheco is an artist. His oils are lush and rich, full of the color and life of his times. They are vibrant and alive—almost as if Grandma Moses were to eat a plate of boliche and swallow three cups of café solo before sitting down to paint."—Tampa Tribune 1997. 112 pp. 8.5 X 11. 33 color plates. ISBN 0-8130-1517-0 Cloth, $39.95 Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians Dorothy Downs "Breathtaking color photographs of Seminole and Miccosukee clothing and other works of art. . . . Delightful and intellectually enriching . . . wholeheartedly recommended for anyone even remotely interested in Florida Indian history."—Southern Historian 1995. 319 pp. 6 X 9. 32 color, ISBN 0-8130-1536-7 Paper, $19.95 Indian Art of Ancient Florida Barbara A. Purdy Photographs by Roy C. Craven, Jr. "A superb book—and one that is long overdue. . . . A fine sampling of a unique native American artistic heritage is laid out before you, in text and in pictures, in this exciting book."—Gordon R. Willey, Peabody Museum, Harvard University Published with support from the
Division of 1996. 143 pp. 8.5 X 11. 116 color photos, 9 figures. ISBN 0-8130-1462-X Cloth, $34.95 |
African Art at the Harn Museum Spirit Eyes, Human Hands Robin Poynor A beautifully illustrated introduction to the role of art objects in African culture as mediums connecting the living and the dead. 93 pieces from the notable collection of West African art at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida. 1995. 237 pp. 17 color, 119 b&w photos, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8130-1325-9 Cloth,
$49.95 Elizabeth P. Benson A stunning display of animal images in pre-Columbian Latin American art from the Carnegie Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, and the Florida Museum of Natural History collections. Introductory essay. 1997. 184 pp. 100 b&w
figures, 9 color plates, notes, bibliography, index. Florida Quilts Charlotte Allen Williams A stunning book of more than 200 photographs—137 of them in full color—celebrating the works of love and beauty assembled by the Florida Quilt Heritage Project. 1992. 256 pp. 7 X 10. 137
color, 82 b&w photos, index.
Folksongs of Florida Compiled and edited A book of nearly 250 Florida folksongs: songs of war, outlawry and prisons, love and religion, nursery tunes, occupational tunes, and even hurricane songs. 1990. 464 pp. Illus., music, lyrics, index. ISBN 0-8130-0983-9 Paper,
$19.95 |