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Presenting an exploration of tin men and their creators, this work contains interviews with craftspeople, gallery owners, collectors, and Sheet Metal Workers' International Association officials, linking tinsmith artistry to issues of craft education, union traditions, labour history, and social class.

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"Tin Men opens a new chapter in material culture studies and folk art research. Connoisseurs may collect and venerate their favorite tin-man pieces, but Archie Green reclaims all these objects for the trade." Julia Ardery, author of The Temptation :Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 12/29/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252073755, 978-0252073755
      ISBN10: 0252073754
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presenting an exploration of tin men and their creators, this work contains interviews with craftspeople, gallery owners, collectors, and Sheet Metal Workers' International Association officials, linking tinsmith artistry to issues of craft education, union traditions, labour history, and social class.

      Trade Review
      "Tin Men opens a new chapter in material culture studies and folk art research. Connoisseurs may collect and venerate their favorite tin-man pieces, but Archie Green reclaims all these objects for the trade." Julia Ardery, author of The Temptation :Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art

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