American expressions of liberty
Subtitle: art of the people, by the people, for the people.
Contributors: Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art.
Publisher: Mingei International Museum; In association with H.N. Abrams
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Liberty in art -- Exhibitions; Folk art -- United States -- Exhibitions; Decorative arts -- United States -- Exhibitions
Description: This book documents an extraordinary exhibition organized and presented by Mingei International Museum to inaugurate its new facility dedicated to furthering the understanding of arts of people from all cultures of the world.

Included are some of the finest objects from the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City and other major public and private collections from the east and west coasts of the United States - many published for the first time. Their rich and wide range covers paintings, quilts, coverlets, weathervanes, cigar store figures, ships' figureheads, whirligigs and shop signs from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-161).
"Mingei International Museum's inaugural exhibition for its new facility, Central Plaza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA"--T.p. verso.