Collecting Texts & Articles

MEANING/PURPOSE/AUTHORSHIP IN THE VISUAL ARTS

• 'Where is the content? Where is the comment?' Lawrence Zeegen (2012)

• 'The Fundamentals of Illustration' Lawrence Zeegen

• 'The Missing Critical History of Illustration' Rick Poynor, Print Magazine, 2010

• 'Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective' Alan Male


CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH

• 'British Folk Art' Ruth Kenny, Jeff McMillan, Martin Myrone

• 'The Unsophisticated Arts' by Barbara Jones

• http://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/british-folk-art-tate-britain/

• https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/09/british-folk-art-review-tate-britain

---> Stuff like this is often damned with the faint praise of being called craft rather than art. What's the difference? Art has ideas and imagination. Classing popular art as craft is a way of stripping it of power, by seeing it as mere handiwork without any deep meaning."

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/23/folk-art-tate-britain

"Blending the lines between high and low, art and artefact"

• http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/british-folk-art

• http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/martin-myrone-like-a-great-circus-tent-folk-art-art-history-and-the-museum/

• Military Quilts/Crimean War Quilts -  http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/military-quilt/

• Estonian Lending Library/Decorative books - http://www.nlib.ee/national-library-of-estonia-celebrates-its-anniversary-with-an-exhibition-on-the-metsiku-lending-library-and-a-book-about-the-librarys-archival-collection/

• Margarete Naumann lace designs 

FURTHER LINKS AND SUBJECTS

• Grayson Perry - pottery and tapestries. Depict everyday people and stories.
http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibitions/touring/grayson-perry-the-vanity-of-small-differences

• http://www.call-me-naive.com/tag/british-folk-art/

• Museum of British Folklore -   http://www.museumofbritishfolklore.com/news_archive/