Entrée principale:

Yoder, Don.

Titre et auteur:

Hex signs : Pennsylvania Dutch barn symbols & their meaning / Don Yoder & Thomas E. Graves.

Édition:

Rev. and expanded 2nd ed.

Publication:

Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, ©2000.

Description:

x, 86 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 80-82) and index.
The world of the hex sign -- What are hex signs? -- The historical hex sign as folk art -- Circles, stars, and the metaphysical -- The scholars' war -- The hex sign as ethnic symbolism -- The hex sign in Pennsylvania -- The geographical spread of the hex sign -- The forms of the hex sign -- The disappearing and reappearing hex sign -- The tourist discovers the hex sign -- The hex sign in advertising -- The hex sign in regional art -- The contemporary hex sign painter -- The meaning of the hex sign: some personal views -- Do hex signs have deeper meanings? -- The hex sign today.

Résumé:

Investigates the possible meanings of hex-sign barn decorations, both historically and at the present.

ISBN:

0811727998
9780811727990

Sujet:

Hex signs Pennsylvania.
Hex signs.
Pennsylvania.

Vedettes secondaires:

Graves, Thomas E.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 257089
Cote: BIB 187519
Statut: Disponible