Ordinary life, festival days : aesthetics in the midwestern county fair / Leslie Prosterman.
Prosterman shows that the criteria for a good cow, a beautiful quilt, and an excellent squash remain the same at a structural level: straight lines, harmonious combinations, balance, evenness, symmetry. --from back cover.
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Washington :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
℗♭1995.
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Table of Contents:
- The aspect of the fair
- The past made present: history and administration
- The premium book categories: charting relations of value
- "A good judge": the ritual of evaluation
- "Eye appeal"/Aesthetic criteria for judging
- Working aesthetics in everyday life
- Festival of art and aesthetics.