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Howard Acree's Fireplace: Tradition and Personal Vision

Occasionally material forms on the folk landscape seem to be located outside the perimeters of tradition. Are these occurrences isolated examples of freak cultural diffusion or has individual creativity absorbed seemingly scattered and unconnected ideas and fused them into new form? Even if it is true that there is nothing new under the sun, can we not explain an idiosyncratic design in a context of tradition by attributing it to personal, rather than collective, vision? Can the material form of personal vision in one geographic area parallel that of another and be attributable, not to the calculable migration of ideas, but to courageous design impulses that cut across diffusionary lines, mirroring an individual's personality more than that of his culture's?