henry glassie
Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has received many awards for his work, including the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Haney Prize in the Social Sciences, the Cummings Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, the Kniffen and Douglas awards of the Pioneer America Society, the Nigerian Studies Association Book Prize, and formal recognition for his contributions from the ministries of culture of Turkey and Bangladesh. Three of his works have been named among the notable books of the year by The New York Times.
In 2010, he was given the American Folklore Society’s award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement. He received the prestigious Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2011; the award honors a “scholarly career of distinctive importance,” and Glassie is the first folklorist to be so honored.
Glassie has lectured throughout the United States and Canada, and in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Malta, Turkey, Israel, Kuwait, India, Bangladesh, China, and Japan. He is the author of Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia, All Silver and No Brass, Irish Folk History, Passing the Time in Ballymenone, Irish Folktales, The Spirit of Folk Art, Turkish Traditional Art Today, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Material Culture, The Potter’s Art, Vernacular Architecture, The Stars of Ballymenone, Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America, and Daniel Johnston: A Portrait of the Artist as a Potter in North Carolina. He is also the co-author of Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line and Sacred Art: Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil.
A documentary film by Pat Collins on Glassie’s work and thought, Henry Glassie: Field Work, was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, and won the award for the Best Irish Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2020. Daniel Johnston appears in the film, making a beautiful big pot.
In 2010, he was given the American Folklore Society’s award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement. He received the prestigious Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2011; the award honors a “scholarly career of distinctive importance,” and Glassie is the first folklorist to be so honored.
Glassie has lectured throughout the United States and Canada, and in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Malta, Turkey, Israel, Kuwait, India, Bangladesh, China, and Japan. He is the author of Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia, All Silver and No Brass, Irish Folk History, Passing the Time in Ballymenone, Irish Folktales, The Spirit of Folk Art, Turkish Traditional Art Today, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Material Culture, The Potter’s Art, Vernacular Architecture, The Stars of Ballymenone, Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America, and Daniel Johnston: A Portrait of the Artist as a Potter in North Carolina. He is also the co-author of Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line and Sacred Art: Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil.
A documentary film by Pat Collins on Glassie’s work and thought, Henry Glassie: Field Work, was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, and won the award for the Best Irish Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2020. Daniel Johnston appears in the film, making a beautiful big pot.
Daniel Johnston: A Portrait of the Artist as a potter in north carolina
reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle, Indiana University
In his latest book, Henry Glassie examines the life and art of Daniel Johnston, a middle-aged potter based near the town of Seagrove in the Eastern Piedmont of North Carolina. While there are some ninety potteries in the vicinity of Seagrove and many highly skilled potters, Glassie chose Johnston for this study because of the uniqueness of his career and a request from the potter to feature him in a book. Given Glassie's extensive field research on individual artists in Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, and elsewhere, he was well-positioned to oblige. Plus, he had published in 2010 a book-length biography of a Nigerian painter -- Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America (Indiana University Press). Indeed, Prince and Johnston have much in common: deep connections to local communities and traditions, experimental work championed by curators and museums, and a proclivity for restless reflection on their experiences and artistic practice.
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