Everyday genius : self-taught art and the culture of authenticity /
By: Fine, Gary Alan.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004Description: xiv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226249506 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226249506 :.Subject(s): Outsider art -- United States | Art -- Marketing | Art -- ExpertisingDDC classification: 709.0407Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 709.0407 FIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0052520 |
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.