Self-taught art : the culture and aesthetics of American vernacular art / [edited by] Charles Russell.

Other author Russell, Charles, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2001.
Descriptionx, 201 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subjects
Outsider art--United States.
African American folk art.

Contents Finding a place for the self-taught in the art world(s) / Charles Russel -- Very like art: self-taught art from an ethological perspective / Ellen Dissanayake -- The aesthetics of everyday life / Michael Owen Jones -- Outsider art / Arthur C. Danto -- The self in self-taught art / Roger Cardinal -- Imagining the academy: "naive" art and the mainstream / Russel Bowman -- Memory painting / Roger Cardinal -- The one and the many: manifest destiny and the internal landscape / Randall Morris -- Spiritual visions and allegory in contemporary African-American folk painting / Sharon Patton -- African charm traditions remembered in the arts of the Americas / Maude Southwell Wahlman -- The aesthetic language of self-taught art / Alison Weld.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
LCCN 2001026040
ISBN1578063809 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks N7432.5.A78 S45 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold