The Unsophisticated Arts by Barbara Jones (2013)

Foreword by Peter Blake

• 'My interests were very much toward the popular arts: fairground decoration, typography, seaside souvenirs'

• Life in an English Village - Edward Bawden (1949)

• The Isle of Wight - Barbara Jones (1950)

• Festival of Britain exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery 'Black Eyes and Lemonade' (Organised by Barbara Jones and Tom Ingram) (1951)

Introduction by Simon Costin

• '...I find myself at home surrounded by many of the objects Barbara Jones wrote about: fairground art, waxworks, Punch & Judy figures, stuffed animals, corn dollies, fireworks, shell-encrusted vases...'

• pg 10 (regarding the Black Eyes and Lemonade exhibition) '...is it folk art? Is it vernacular art? Is it pop art or outsider art?'

• pg 10-11 '..by putting the machine-made and the hand-made side by side, she blurred the boundaries between what was considered art'

Black Eyes and Lemonade, exhibition poster from 1951

Preface by Barbara Jones

• pg 15 'This book is about the things that people make for themselves or that are manufactured in their taste'

• 'Most of the folk arts are dead, or self-consciously preserved by societies. Most of them were handicrafts; we can say with certainty that smocking, quilting, Morris dancing, mumming, corn dollies, weaving, and so on, are definitely folk'

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