As a non-urbanized culture, Viking society expressed its visual genius in elaborate woodcarving and intricate jewelry, not architecture. Gods were represented by charming cult statues and contacted through magical runic drawings. Without writing, great my

"Higher ground: a century of the visual arts in East Tennessee documents the Knoxville Museum of Art's core collection of works by artists from or with close ties to East Tennessee from roughly the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The book accompanies a permanent exhibition of the same name. Both book and exhibition make the case the the visual culture of Knoxville and its Appalachian environs is far more sophisticated, diverse, nuanced,...