YOUNG AMERICA: A FOLK ART HISTORY by Jean Lipman; Elizabeth V. Warren; RobertBishopReview by: George BoeckArt Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 6, No. 2(Summer 1987), p. 98Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27947768 .

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98 Art Documentation, Summer, 1987

renders the book less useful than it might be. The Apocalyptic Sublime would be a pleasant addition to any art library, but only a must for those libraries committed to a comprehensive collection of material on nineteenth-century or Romantic art.

Jeffrey J. Ross Simmons College

YOUNG AMERICA: A FOLK ART HISTORY / Jean Lipman, Elizabeth V. Warren, Robert Bishop.?New York : Hudson Hills Press in cooperation with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1986.?ISBN 0-933920-75-x ; LC 86-10248 : $45.00.

Jean Lipman has presented the connoisseurship of Ameri can folk art throughout its recent history. The current descrip tion divides the topic among ten categories: House and Garden; Church and School; On the Farm; In Town; On the Road; At Sea; Weddings, Births, and Deaths; Work; Play. For each category we find a 300-or-so-word introduction, a brief essay on the topic or a subcategory's topic, four or five pages of excellent color reproductions and a scattering of black-and white illustrations.

The essays give the historical setting by reference to the illustrations, then anecdotes about the artists or comments on the techniques represented. The illustrations are largely of nineteenth-century paintings and include photographs. Con sidering the quality and number of color reproductions, this exhibition catalogue cum coffee-table book is quite reason ably priced. Although the coverage is still distinctly Anglo, some effort has been made to be geographically diverse.

The essays, unfortunately, doom the book. Lipman's pref ace states the connoisseur's program much as it has stood since her Flowering of American Folk Art. Declaring success in the campaign to have folk art considered as art, she returns to the impressionist and effusive descriptions of the "strong and original and wonderful art that add up to a vivid, first hand history of how life was lived." Acceptable in a preface by a doyenne, we expect more from the personnel of the Museum of American Folk Art. A cloying patronization of the naive artist "isolated and insulated from the sophisticated twentieth century world" pervades the text. Sophomoric statements proliferate in the connoisseur's essays, e.g., "un like the academic artist who paints from nature?paints what he sees?the folk artist is more likely to paint what he knows." Folk art, one would think, should benefit from the establish ment of scholarly approaches to academic art. In the absence of folk art being treated seriously as art, the book can only be recommended for its illustrations and biographical comments.

George Boeck

Appleton, Wisconsin

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED (Subject to Later Review)

Alexander and John Robert Cozens: the Poetry of Landscape I Kim Sloan.?New Haven, Ct.: Published in assoc. with the Art Gallery of Ontario by Yale Uni versity Press, 1986.?ISBN 0-300-03826-7, ISBN 0-300-03855-0 (pa.) : $35.00, $12.95 (pa.).

American Illustration, 1890-1925: Romance, Adventure 8i Suspense I Judy L. Larson.?Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow Museum, 1986?ISBN 0-919224-47-4 : $24.95 (pa.).

Before Hollywood: Jurn-of-the-Century American Film.?New York: Hudson Hills Press in assoc. with the American Federation of Arts, 1987.?ISBN 0-933920-91-1 ; LC 86-72687 : $35.00.

California Art Research I Edited by Gene Hailey?A Microfiche ed.?La Jolla, Cal.: Laurence McGilvery, 1987?ISBN 0-910938-88-1 : $50.00. (Laurence McGilvery, P.O. Box 852, La Jolla, Ca. 92038-0852).

The Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: User's Guide I Antony Griffiths and Reginald Williams.?London: British Museum Publica tions, C1987?ISBN 0-7141-1634-3 : ?10.00.

Florentine Painting and its Social Background: the Bourgeois Republic I Frederick Antal.?Cambridge, Ma.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.? ISBN 0-674-30668-6 ; LC 86-10302 : $18.95 (pa.).

For the Working Artist: a Survival Guide for Performing, Visual and Media Artists Who Choose to Manage Their Own Careers I Judith Luther.?Valencia, Ca.: California Institute of the Arts, 1986?ISBN 0-938683-00-4 : $10.95.

French Romanesque Sculpture: an Annotated Bibliography I Thomas W. Lyman with Daniel Smartt.?ISBN 0-8161-8330-9 ; LC 86-29390 : $49.00.

The Futurist Movement: Avant-garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rap ture I Marjorie Perloff.?Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.? ISBN 0-226-65731-0 ; LC 86-3147 : $24.95.

Giambattista Tiepolo: his Life and Art I Michael Levey?New Haven: Yale Uni versity Press, 1986.?ISBN 0-300-03018-5 ; LC 86-7730 : $60.00.

The Gothic Choirstalls of Spain I Dorothy and Henry Kraus.?London, New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.?ISBN 0-7102-0294-6 ; LC 85-2228 : $59.95.

Guy Anderson I Essay by Bruce Guenther.?Seattle: Franci ne Seders-Gallery, dist. by University of Washington Press, 1986? ISBN 0-295-96418-9, ISBN 0-295-96419-7 (pa.) : $29.95. $19.95 (pa.).

Human Rights I Human Wrongs: Art and Social Change I Edited by Robert Hobbs and Fredrick Woodard.?Seattle: Dist. for the University of Iowa Museum of Art by University of Washington Press, 1987?ISBN 0-87414-046-3 ; LC 86-50147 : $20.00.

Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Courtauld Collection.? New Haven, Ct.: Yale University Press, 1987?ISBN 0-300-03828-3, ISBN 0-300-03891-7 (pa.) ; LC 86-51199: $35.00, $13.95 (pa.).

Index to the Cartoons of the New Yorker Magazine, 1975-1985 I Compiled by Janet R. Utts.?Evanston, II.: John Gordon Burke Pub., 1986?ISBN 0-934272-14-X : $45.00.

Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cata logue of Oriental Art. Pt. 11 Linda York Leach.?Bloomington, IN.: Cleveland Museum of Art in coop, with Indiana University Press, 1986.?ISBN 0-910386-78-1 ; LC 85-7740 : $65.00.

International Directory of Arts, 1987-88.?18th ed.?Frankfurt, Germany: Art Ad dress, dist. by Gale Research Co., 1986.?ISBN 3-921529-25-5 : $148.00 (2 vol.)

The J?nius B. Bird Conference on Andean Textiles: April 7th-8th, 1984 I Ann Pollard Rowe, editor.?Washington, D.C: The Textile Museum, 1986?ISBN 0-97405-025-1 ; n.p.

The New Art?the New Life: the Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian I Edited and translated by Harry Holtzman and Martin S. James.?Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.?ISBN 0-8057-9957-5 ; LC 86-9873 : $60.00.

Photography, a Facet of Modernism: Photographs from the San Francisco Mu seum of Modern Art I Van Deren Coke with Diana C. DuPont.?New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986.?ISBN 0-933920-73-3 ; LC 86-15261 : $45.00.

Pilgrims & Pioneers: New England Women in the Arts I Edited by Alicia Faxon and Sylvia Moore.?New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1987.?ISBN 0-9602476-6-1 ; LC 87-060021 : $12.00.

Primhivism in Modern Art I Robert Goldwater.?Enlarged ed.?Cambridge, Ma.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.?ISBN 0-674-70490-8 ; LC 86-10304 : $14.95 (pa.).

Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: on Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane I Michael Fried.?Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987?ISBN 0-226-26210-3 ; ISBN 0-226026211-1 (pa.) ; LC 86-16478 : $29.95.

Remembrances of Things Past: Collected Writings and Exhibition Catalog /Lane Relyea, editor, Connie Fitzsimmons, exhibition curator.?Long Beach, Ca.: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1986.?LC 86-82907 : n.p.

Rodin, Sculpture & Drawings I Catherine Lampert.?London: Arts Council of Great Britain, dist. by Yale University Press, 1987?ISBN 0-300-03807-0, ISBN 0-300-03832-1 (pa.) : $45.00, $19.95 (pa.).

Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht: Revolution, Remembrance, Representa tion I an exhibition devised by John A. Walker.?London: Pentonville Gallery, 1986.?ISBN 0-1-870150-00-7 : ?2.95. (Pentonville Gallery, 7/9 Ferdinand St., Chalk Farm, London NW1 8ES).

Studies on Camille Pissarro I Edited by Christopher Lloyd.?New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987?ISBN 0-7102-0928-2 ; LC 86-3876 : $28.00 (pa.).

Subject Access to Visual Resource Collections: a Model for Computer Con struction of Thematic Catalogs I Karen Markey.?New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.?ISBN 0-313-24031-0 ; LC 86-7658 : $35.00.

Tanagra and the Figurines I Reynold Higgins.?Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univer sity Press, 1986.?ISBN 0-691-04044-3 ; LC 86-42872: $50.00.

The Techniques of Basketry I Virginia I. Harvey.?Seattle: University of Wash ington Press, 1987?ISBN 0-295-96415-4 ; LC 86-19057 : $12.95 (pa.).

Uncovering the Past: Tribute and Parody, (exhibition catalog).?Sept. 7-Nov. 2, 1986.?Long Beach, Ca.: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1986.?n.p.

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