| Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home Contributor(s): Nokes, Jill (Author), Jasper, Pat (Author), Flowers, Betty Sue (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0292716796 ISBN-13: 9780292716797 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they live in more truly their own. Yard Art and Handmade Places profiles twenty homemakers who have used their yards and gardens to express their sense of individuality, to maintain connections to family and heritage, or even to create sacred spaces for personal and community refreshment and healing. Jill Nokes, an authority on native plants and ecological restoration, traveled across the state of Texas, seeking out residents who had transformed their yards and gardens into oases of art and exuberant personal expression. In this book, she presents their stories, told in their own words, about why they created these handmade places and what their yard art has come to mean to them and to their communities. Rather than viewing yard art as a curiosity or oddity, Nokes treats it as an integral part of home-making, revealing how these places become invested with deep personal or social meaning. Yard Art and Handmade Places celebrates the fact that, despite the proliferation of look-alike suburbs, places still exist where people with ordinary means and skills are shaping space with their own hands to create a personal expression that can be enjoyed by all. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Folk & Outsider Art - Gardening | Garden Design |
| Dewey: 712.609 |
| LCCN: 2007011574 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 9.42" W x 8.56" (2.02 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they live in more truly their own. Yard Art and Handmade Places profiles twenty homemakers who have used their yards and gardens to express their sense of individuality, to maintain connections to family and heritage, or even to create sacred spaces for personal and community refreshment and healing. Jill Nokes, an authority on native plants and ecological restoration, traveled across the state of Texas, seeking out residents who had transformed their yards and gardens into oases of art and exuberant personal expression. In this book, she presents their stories, told in their own words, about why they created these handmade places and what their yard art has come to mean to them and to their communities. Rather than viewing yard art as a curiosity or oddity, Nokes treats it as an integral part of home-making, revealing how these places become invested with deep personal or social meaning. Yard Art and Handmade Places celebrates the fact that, despite the proliferation of look-alike suburbs, places still exist where people with ordinary means and skills are shaping space with their own hands to create a personal expression that can be enjoyed by all. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nokes, Jill: - Jill Nokes is a landscape designer in Austin, Texas.Whitson, Krista: - Krista Whitson, AIA, is an architect and photographer in Austin. |