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Everyday genius : self-taught art and the culture of authenticity /

Fine, Gary Alan.

Everyday genius : self-taught art and the culture of authenticity / - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004. - xiv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-319) and index.

Creating boundaries. -- Creating biography. -- Creating artists. -- Creating collections. -- Creating community. -- Creating markets. -- Creating institutions. -- Creating art worlds.

Gary Alan Fine discusses as 'outsider art', which is created by self-taught artists, without traditional training & mostly living on the fringes of society. He examines the influences on the artists & the market which has developed for the genre.

0226249506 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226249506 : £21.00


Outsider art--United States.
Art--Marketing.
Art--Expertising.

709.0407 / FIN