Flowers Afloat: Folk Artists of the Canals by A.J. Lewery
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Flowers Afloat
Summary
A celebration of the traditional style of paintwork which adorns British narrow boats, and of the lives and work of the artists who created it. The book gives an explanation of the designs and motifs which characterize this branch of folk art.
Flowers Afloat Summary
Table of Contents
Boats, boatmen and wives 1760-1860; the Rose and the Castle picture; origins, possible, probable and problematic; the professional painters - all in a day's work; boatmen painters; the unconventioneal tradition; blue and yellow, and the souvenier disease.
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GOR010039496
9780715301456
0715301454
Flowers Afloat: Folk Artists of the Canals by A.J. Lewery
Used - Well Read
Hardback
David & Charles
19960331
128
N/A
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