Holger Cahill as Folklorist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2766808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Michael Vlach (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 388 |
| Pages | 148 |
| Publication date | 1985-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/540437 |
| OpenAlex | W2330762236 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
HOLGER CAHILL REMAINS TODAY the most frequently cited authority on American folk art. Few books fail to mention or to quote at length his definition (Cahill 1932a:6; Lipman and Winchester 1974:12-13; Bishop 1979:9; Johnson and Ketchum 1983:vii). Yet Cahill was not, nor apparently did he ever think of himself as, a folklorist. In fact, it is difficult to find an appropriate category for him. While he held several jobs throughout his life, he always considered himself primarily a writer. Turning his interpretive and organizational abilities to folk art at the moment of its 20th-century rediscovery in the 1920s, Cahill rose to prominence as its advocate and eventually established the standards for its evaluation. Given the current enthusiasm for folk art in the
Art · Art history · Enthusiasm · Folklore · Folkloristics · Literature · Theology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |