Turkish Traditional Art Today

"Turkish Traditional Art Today presents the living arts and artists of Turkey. It is simultaneously an etnographic inquiry into the nature of art, an introduction to modern Turkey, and a model study of folk art, combining the theories folklore, anthropology, culturalgeography, and art history. Describing his research in the cities, towns, and mountain villages, Glassie ranges widely across media. He tells of architecture, calligraphy, woodworking, and earthenware, but lays particular emphasis on the brilliant, underglaze-painted ceramics of Kütahya and the rich, pilled carpets for which Turkey has been famed for centruies. While searching for the traits that art and the stylistics com-plexities that chracterize Turkish creativity, Glassie focuses on the artists and their theories and practices as well as the works they produce."

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