Research, Resources, Perspectives
What kind of knowledge are we addressing when we talk about folk culture? What can we extract from work songs, ballads, lullabies, and reels? What do stories of various kinds, relayed by word of...
Seasonal library poster by Albert M. Bender, Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago, ca. 1940, via the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98509532/.[/caption]
This image of a middled-aged African American woman won’t let go of me. Seated at a table doing her writing lessons, many years of experience clearly visible on her face, she reminds me that...
Commenting on his famous work Le Penseur, or The Thinker, a century ago, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin described his subject in terms of its utter (masculine) physicality. “What makes my Thinker think is that he...
New Deal poster by the Illinois WPA Art Project, Chicago, ca. 1936–41 Source: Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98508155/, which offers a high-resolution version.[/caption]
