Barragan's architecture helped bring modernism back to the elemental strength of its original vernacular sources.

But employing vernacular sources begins to seem like an easy way to give his songs an American jolt.

The Red Jews were a legendary Jewish nation that appear in vernacular sources in Germany during the medieval era until about 1600.

RAYMOND PETTIBON - This Los Angeles artist's funny, weird drawings are taken from advertising, fiction and a variety of vernacular sources.

According to a vernacular source, despite holding many lucrative posts he faced many financial troubles.

They also scoured vernacular sources - collecting, recycling and re-presenting everyday pictures on postcards and in newspapers and magazines.

One of the few things that both the Greco-Roman and the vernacular Irish sources agree on about the druids is that they played an important part in pagan Celtic society.

The Irish passages referring to druids in such vernacular sources were "more numerous than those on the classical texts" of the Greeks and Romans, and paint a somewhat different picture of them.

A slick and inventive designer, Mr. McGinness has developed an expansive vocabulary of eccentric, vaguely familiar symbols drawn from art historical and modern vernacular sources.

Thomson lived to see the day when an emerging generation of postmodern composers saw him as a prophet before his time, who had made straight the paths for a return to simplicity, accessibility and the use of vernacular sources.