Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian Journals Their feathery flowers and surreal

Their feathery flowers and surreal foliage have adorned everything from canvas and paper to clay

this fifth edition of the classic reference book also has a complete inventory of properties―now approximately one hundred―including those recently added to the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s “Register of Properties Worthy of Preservation” since 1961

During a hospital stay

for a naming ceremony

Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian Journals Their feathery flowers and surrealListen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan. This book is about