Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home by Nokes, Jill

Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home

Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they...
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Author: Jill Nokes
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Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home by Nokes, Jill

Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home

$79.13

Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home

$79.13
Author: Jill Nokes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Jill Nokes, Pat Jasper
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.02lbs
Size: 8.56h x 9.42w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780292716797

About the Author
JILL NOKES is a landscape designer in Austin, Texas.KRISTA WHITSON, AIA, is an architect and photographer in Austin.


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