Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK

Jeremy Deller

• Other Authors Alan Kane (Artist)
• Title

  Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK

• Date 2014
• ISBN 9780863557477
• Publisher British Council
• Description 393 p; 6 in; color ill.
• Language English
• Collections Dan Fox Collection
• Summary

  Folk Archive is a vibrant, visual account of contemporary popular British culture by the artists Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane. Bringing together drawing, painting, film, performance, costume, decoration, political opinion and humour, and some astonishing objects, Folk Archive celebrates activity from a vast range of British pastimes and pursuits, and demonstrates that folk art in the UK is both widespread and vigorous. (Jeremy Deller)

• Tags Contemporary art, British art -- 20th century, Popular culture, Folk and Outsider art, Archives