Talking with the Turners: Conversations with Southern Folk Potters

Folklorist George Holt and Sweezy offer introductory assurances that North Carolina's folk material culture is represented and respected in this enterprise, but authenticity and tradition are terms that appear in The Potter's Eye with quotation marks around them, forces with historical res...

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Published inWestern Folklore Vol. 67; no. 2/3; pp. 293 - 296
Main Author Camp, Charles
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Chico Western States Folklore Society 01.04.2008
Subjects
Art history
Museums
Traditions
North Carolina
Mississippi
United States > US
Japan
Kentucky
Georgia
Alabama
Maryland
South Carolina
Baltimore Maryland
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Summary:Folklorist George Holt and Sweezy offer introductory assurances that North Carolina's folk material culture is represented and respected in this enterprise, but authenticity and tradition are terms that appear in The Potter's Eye with quotation marks around them, forces with historical resonance that in a post-Jugtown world impinge upon the visions of a new generation of ceramic artists. Which is clearly backwards, given Sweezy's previous scholarship and life experience, particularly as director of Jugtown Pottery from 1968 to 1980, and Hewitt's clearly-and frequently-stated antipathies for what folklorists and other people with academic degrees have had to say about Southern pottery.
ISSN:0043-373X
2325-811X