Description
Followup to "Der Volksfreund, Hex Signs, Folk Tales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch."
A fascinating collage of art, oral history, folk tales, scholarship and personal, family memory, Der Zauberschpiggel provides unique insight into the mis-named Pennsylvania Dutch, the descendants of immigrants from the Rhine in the Eighteenth Century, to America. The author, an accomplished practitioner of the folk art of those people, and a product of their culture, makes illustrative use of his own work largely in the form of his Hex Sign paintings, and of his family history, Includes a number of contributors including articles by his brother, scholar Russell Yoder, Dennis Boyer, John Joseph Stoudt, Edwin Miller Fogel and many many more.
Author: Edwin Miller Fogel, Elsie Singmaster, Richard H. Shaner
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 10/29/2021
Pages: 398
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9798754535398
ISBN10: 8754535395
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Folk & Outsider Art
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