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Author : Frank Maresca,Roger Ricco,Lyle Rexer
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032882451
Cent peintres autodidactes américains du vingtième siècle - incluant Victor Duena, la Soeur Gertrude Morgan, Henry Darger et Freddie Brice, avec 260 reproductions toutes en couleurs de leurs oeuvres.
Author : Charles Russell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578063809
The first book to give self-taught art the same degree of scholarly attention and critical thinking that mainstream art traditionally receives
Author : Betty-Carol Sellen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786475858
Much has changed in the world of self-taught art since the millennium. Many of the recognized "masters" have died and new artists have emerged. Many galleries have closed but few new ones have opened, as artists and dealers increasingly sell through websites and social media. The growth and popularity of auction houses have altered the relationship between artists and collectors. In its third edition, this book provides updated information on artists, galleries, museums, auctions, organizations and publications for both experienced and aspiring collectors of self-taught, outsider and folk art. Gallery and museum entries are organized geographically and alphabetically by state and city.
Author : Gail Andrews Trechsel,Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.)
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 087805877X
A stunning book featuring full-color reproductions of art by American self-taught artists. Distributed for the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Author : Carol Crown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 157806659X
A fascinating examination of the Bible's influence on seventy-three self-taught artists and 122 works of art
Author : Katherine Jentleson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520303423
After World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender. At the center of this fundamental reevaluation of who could be an artist in America were John Kane, Horace Pippin, and Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses. The stories of these three artists not only intertwine with the major critical debates of their period but also prefigure the call for inclusion in representations of American art today. In Gatecrashers, Katherine Jentleson offers a valuable corrective to the history of twentieth-century art by expanding narratives of interwar American modernism and providing an origin story for contemporary fascination with self-taught artists.
Author : American Folk Art Museum,American Folk Art Museum Staff,Stacy C. Hollander,Valérie Rousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Folk art
ISBN : 091216123X
Author : Lisa Slominski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300260229
A global history of self-taught artists advocating for a nuanced understanding of modern and contemporary art often challenged by the establishment When the art world has paid attention to makers from outside the cultural establishment, including so-called outsider and self-taught artists, it has generally been within limiting categories. Yet these artists, including many women, people with disabilities, and people of color, have had a transformative influence on the history of modern art. Responding to growing interest in these artists, this book offers a nuanced history of their work and how it has been understood from the early twentieth century to the present day. Nonconformers includes work by well-known figures such as Henry Darger, Hilma af Klint, and Bill Traylor alongside many other artists who deserve widespread recognition. After reviewing how self-taught artists factored into key movements of twentieth-century art, the book shifts to highlighting the voices of contemporary practitioners through new interviews with artists William Scott, Mamadou Cissé, and George Widener. An international group of contributors addresses topics such as the development of the Black Folk Art movement in America and l'Art Brut in France, the creative process of self-taught artists working outside of traditional studios, and the themes of figuration, landscape, and abstraction. Global in scope and with chronological breadth, this alternative narrative is an essential introduction to the genre long known as "Outsider Art."
Author : Gary Alan Fine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226249605
From Henry Darger's elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the Reverend Howard Finster, the work of outsider artists has achieved unique status in the art world. Celebrated for their lack of traditional training and their position on the fringes of society, outsider artists nonetheless participate in a traditional network of value, status, and money. After spending years immersed in the world of self-taught artists, Gary Alan Fine presents Everyday Genius, one of the most insightful and comprehensive examinations of this network and how it confers artistic value. Fine considers the differences among folk art, outsider art, and self-taught art, explaining the economics of this distinctive art market and exploring the dimensions of its artistic production and distribution. Interviewing dealers, collectors, curators, and critics and venturing into the backwoods and inner-city homes of numerous self-taught artists, Fine describes how authenticity is central to the system in which artists—often poor, elderly, members of a minority group, or mentally ill—are seen as having an unfettered form of expression highly valued in the art world. Respected dealers, he shows, have a hand in burnishing biographies of the artists, and both dealers and collectors trade in identities as much as objects. Revealing the inner workings of an elaborate and prestigious world in which money, personalities, and values affect one another, Fine speaks eloquently to both experts and general readers, and provides rare access to a world of creative invention-both by self-taught artists and by those who profit from their work. “Indispensable for an understanding of this world and its workings. . . . Fine’s book is not an attack on the Outsider Art phenomenon. But it is masterful in its anatomization of some of its contradictions, conflicts, pressures, and absurdities.”—Eric Gibson, Washington Times
Author : Alice Rae Yelen
Publisher : University Press of Mississippi
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015009127559
In recent years, the artwork of the self-taught has gained increasing recognition in the mainstream art world. The New Orleans Museum of Art, a leading institution in the field, organized this exhibition identifying and documenting the superb aesthetic achievement of selected artists from thirteen Southern states who, by definition, have not sought didactic art training, traditional diplomas, or association with other artists or with the established art world in general. This overview of painting and sculpture is the first large-scale effort to consider the work of self-taught Southern artists according to intrinsic artistic merit and without regard to race, religion, or gender.--Adapted from foreword, p. 6.
Author : Leslie Umberger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691182674
"Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history--the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. Traylor would not live to see the civil rights movement, but he was among those who laid its foundation. Starting around 1939, Traylor--by then in his late eighties and living on the streets of Montgomery--took up pencil and paintbrush to attest to his existence and point of view. In keeping with this radical step, the paintings and drawings he made are visually striking and politically assertive; they include simple yet powerful distillations of tales and memories as well as spare, vibrantly colored abstractions. When Traylor died, he left behind more than one thousand works of art. In Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, Leslie Umberger considers more than two hundred artworks to provide the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the artist to date; she examines his life, art, and powerful drive to bear witness through the only means he had, pictures. The author draws on a wealth of historical documents--including federal and state census records, birth and death certificates, slave schedules, and interviews with family members-- to clarify the record of Traylor's personal history and family life. The story of his art opens in the late 1930s, when Traylor first received attention for his pencil drawings on found board, and concludes with the posthumous success of his oeuvre"--
Author : Elsa Weiner Longhauser
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015045637751
Today the work of so-called "outsider" artists is receiving unprecedented attention. This major critical appraisal of America's 20th-century self-taught artists coincides with a major 1998 traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. While some of these artists have received critical recognition, others remain virtually unknown, following their muse regardless. 150 color images.
Author : High Museum of Art
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578063639
During 1996 and 1997, T. Marshall Hahn donated a substantial portion of his collection of contemporary folk art to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. His gift was the first major collection of self-taught art primarily from the South to be given to a general interest American museum. The Hahn Collection comprises more than 140 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures created by more than forty artists and is particularly strong in work by African American self-taught artists. The three essays in this book provide a context for this extraordinary gift. An interview with Hahn by Lynne E. Spriggs, the High's Curator of Folk Art, traces his personal collecting history. An essay by Joanne Cubbs, the High's first curator of folk art, explores conceptual and aesthetic themes common to Southern folk art, and an essay by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, presents an overview of the developing awareness of and market for Southern folk art. The catalogue section features color reproductions and short essays on eighty-five of the most significant objects in the Collection.
Author : Florence Laffal,Julius Laffal
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058067359
Self-taught art (or outsider art or folk art) is made up of paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, outdoor constructions and other items created by people with little or no formal training who produce (or at least began by producing) art without regard to mainstream recognition or the marketplace. There are now several periodicals, numerous yearly auctions, and dozens of museums and galleries devoted to the field. This analysis of the art form in 20th century America begins by explaining the emergence of self-taught art, and introducing the reader to key aspects. The second chapter studies trends, by gender, race and region, and examines such issues as education, employment and the circumstances under which artists became active. The main body of the work consists of 1,319 biographies of artists--dates, location, origins, education, employment, style, media, themes and unusual characteristics. Another section deals with 44 categories of self-taught art including media (collage, painting, pottery, relief carving, sculpture, etc.); styles (abstract, rudimentary, surrealistic...); and themes (such as animals, death, humor, politics, religion, vehicles and words).
Author : Mary E. Lyons,Bill Traylor
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684194589
The life and accomplishments of a 20th-century African-American folk artist.