Yard Art and Handmade Places

Yard Art and Handmade Places
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 606
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ISBN-10 : 9780292787995
ISBN-13 : 0292787995
Rating : 4/5 (995 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Yard Art and Handmade Places by : Jill Nokes

Download or read book Yard Art and Handmade Places written by Jill Nokes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they live in more truly their own. Yard Art and Handmade Places profiles twenty homemakers who have used their yards and gardens to express their sense of individuality, to maintain connections to family and heritage, or even to create sacred spaces for personal and community refreshment and healing. Jill Nokes, an authority on native plants and ecological restoration, traveled across the state of Texas, seeking out residents who had transformed their yards and gardens into oases of art and exuberant personal expression. In this book, she presents their stories, told in their own words, about why they created these handmade places and what their yard art has come to mean to them and to their communities. Rather than viewing yard art as a curiosity or oddity, Nokes treats it as an integral part of home-making, revealing how these places become invested with deep personal or social meaning. Yard Art and Handmade Places celebrates the fact that, despite the proliferation of look-alike suburbs, places still exist where people with ordinary means and skills are shaping space with their own hands to create a personal expression that can be enjoyed by all.


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