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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings

Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings

Chibnik, Michael

Paperback

Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture (Paperback)

Business of ArtFolk & Outsider Art

ISBN10: 0292712480
ISBN13: 9780292712485
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Apr 1 2003
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. Ironically, however, the Oaxacan wood carvings are not a traditional folk art. Invented in the mid-twentieth century by non-Indian Mexican artisans for the tourist market, their appeal flows as much from intercultural miscommunication as from their intrinsic artistic merit.

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