Henry Glassie has made a life out of studying folk artists and the marvels they create. Over the past 50 years, the renowned US scholar has traveled to five continents, conducting fieldwork with an obsessive thoroughness. Each project Henry Glassie undertakes requires at least a decade. Brimming with insights into the artistic impulse - and how every culture manifests its own standard of beauty and meaning - this poetic portrait of Henry Glassie doubles as a travelogue, taking us places Henry Glassie has embedded himself. In Bahia, Brazil, we meet Evidal Rosas, charged with reconstructing sacred statues for which there remain no record, and Rosalvo Santana, who meticulously sculpts from clay a magisterial saint flanked by cherubs. Captured with mesmerizing intimacy by director Pat Collins and cinematographer Colm Hogan, the process of these artists is awe-inspiring. Henry Glassie: Field Work also allows us to witness the walling up of a massive kiln in Piedmont, North Carolina, and features archival recordings of Henry Glassie's encounters with carpet weavers and ceramicists in western Turkey, and storytellers in Pat Collins and Colm Hogan's home country of Ireland, where Henry Glassie's subjects reflect on their troubled present by talking about the past. At home in Bloomington, Indiana in between journeys, Henry Glassie speaks of the particularities of his approach. His credo is to meet people in terms of their excellence, rather than their failings. If more of us could apply Henry Glassie's philosophy to our lives, the world would be a better place. 　　译文(3): 亨利·格拉西以研究民间艺术家及其创造的奇迹为【资源囤-ZiYuanTun.Com】。在过去的50年里，这位著名的美国学者游历了五大洲，以一种痴迷的彻底性进行实地考察。亨利·格拉西承担的每一个项目都需要至少十年的时间。这幅亨利·格拉西的诗意肖像充满了对艺术冲动的洞察，以及每种文化如何体现其自身的美和意义标准，它兼具游记的功能，将我们带到亨利·格拉西所嵌入的地方。在巴西巴伊亚，我们遇到了埃维达尔·罗萨斯（Evidal Rosas）和罗莎尔沃·桑塔纳（Rosalvo Santana），前者负责重建没有记录的神圣雕像，后者用粘土精心雕刻出一位两侧是小天使的权威圣人。导演Pat Collins和摄影师Colm Hogan以令人着迷的亲密感捕捉到了这些艺术家的过程，令人敬畏。亨利·格拉西：《实地工作》还让我们见证了北卡罗来纳州皮埃蒙特一座大型窑炉的封墙，并记录了亨利·格拉西在土耳其西部与地毯编织者和陶艺家的相遇，以及在帕特·科林斯和科尔姆·霍根的祖国爱尔兰与讲故事者的相遇，亨利·格拉西的受试者通过谈论过去来反思他们陷入困境的现在。在印第安纳州布鲁明顿的家中，亨利·格拉西在旅行间隙谈到了他的方法的特殊性。他的信条是根据人们的优秀而不是失败来认识他们。如果我们中的更多人能够将亨利·格拉西的哲学应用到我们的生活中，世界就会变得更美好。