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Earl's art shop : building art with Earl Simmons
- Title
- Earl's art shop : building art with Earl Simmons / text by Stephen Flinn Young ; photographs by D.C. Young.
- Author
- Young, Stephen Flinn.
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NB239 Si47 Y87 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Young, D. C.
- Description
- 72 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.
- Summary
- As a child growing up in Bovina, Mississippi, Earl Simmons began making his own toys from cardboard boxes, lids of baby-food jars, and bottlecaps, using a Coca-Cola bottle for a hammer. Today he is still constructing "just toys" and other fanciful creations which he sells from his studio-gallery, Earl's Art Shop 'n Bovina, and by commission to collectors throughout the United States.
- His ultimate project and his fulfillment, however, is his combined home cafe, workshop, and sales gallery, called Earl's Art Shop. It is a series of interconnected buildings he began to construct himself in 1978. Created from waste materials and objects gathered from local sawmills and landfills, this is a work of art that Simmons conceived as a community resource, meeting place, and basis of income.
- Series Statement
- Folk art and artists series
- Uniform Title
- Folk art and artists series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36).
- ISBN
- 0878058044 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0878058117 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95018465
- OCLC
- 32510711
- ocm32510711
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries