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Americana Insights 2025 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798988533122)
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xA comprehensive study of Pennsylvania German redware and a celebration of this vibrant folk art tradition
Americana Insights 2025 is the third volume in an annual series that presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional Americana, folk art, and material culture. In this volume the authors explore a beloved aspect of American folk art--Pennsylvania German redware. Focusing on redware's production, use, and collecting in southeastern Pennsylvania from the mid-eighteenth to early twentieth century, the authors provide fresh insights into renowned potters such as Georg Hubener, Samuel Troxel, and Solomon Grimm as well as lesser-known figures. Other essays delve into the work of twentieth-century potters like Jacob Medinger, considered the last of the traditional Pennsylvania German potters, and Mildred Weekes Keyser, a pioneering revivalist potter. The authors also explore broader themes, including the use of political imagery and hunting iconography, and redware's role in cultural exchange between Anglo-Americans and Pennsylvania Germans. A celebration of this vibrant folk art tradition and a vital scholarly contribution, Americana Insights 2025 represents the most comprehensive study of Pennsylvania German redware in more than a century. Contributors: Johanna Brown, Laini Ferrare, R. Erich Hess, Christopher Malone, Lisa Minardi, Karl Pass, Candace Perry, Jeffrey Pressman, Jean Renshaw, Justin Thomas.Author: Lisa Minardi
ISBN-13: 9798988533122
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2025
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
By Lisa Minardi
xLisa Minardi is a distinguished curator and scholar of Pennsylvania German art and culture. She has organized numerous exhibitions and published extensively and was assistant curator at Winterthur Museum from 2006 to 2016. Minardi currently serves as executive director of Historic Trappe and the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.
Minardi is a PhD candidate in the History of American Civilization Program at the University of Delaware, where she is researching the German-speaking community of early Philadelphia for her dissertation. She holds an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and a BA in history and museum studies from Ursinus College.Recently Viewed Products
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