Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements of every winner of the National Heritage Fellowship since 1981, which constitutes well over 200 profiles of the nation's finest traditional artists. These individuals have dedicated their lives to fiddling and blues music, blacksmithing and the Japanese tea ceremony, weaving and embroidery, Native American basketry and ...
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Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements of every winner of the National Heritage Fellowship since 1981, which constitutes well over 200 profiles of the nation's finest traditional artists. These individuals have dedicated their lives to fiddling and blues music, blacksmithing and the Japanese tea ceremony, weaving and embroidery, Native American basketry and beadwork.
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As New. Book Two real ice clean first edition hardcover volumes with a total of 754 pages. Both have 1 low in number line. A compilation of America's premier folk artists and a celebration of their excellence and devotion to their crafts. A-Z encyclopedia of biographies of every National Heritage Fellowship recipient of the past 20 years· Many photographs documenting the artists practicing their crafts· An appendix listing the recipients of the Bess Lomax Hawes Award, created in 2000 to recognize artists whose contributions have greatly benefited their artistic tradition and much more.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Hardcover edition. Volume 1 (A-J) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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New. this is complete 2 Vol. set-ABSOLUTELY BRAND NEW(shrink-wrapped NEW)! ! -No international no expedite shipping available. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 754 p. Contains: Illustrations. Biographical Dictionary. Audience: General/trade.
