Self-taught art
Subtitle: the culture and aesthetics of American vernacular art
By: [edited by] Charles Russell.
Contributors: Russell, Charles, 1944-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781578063802
Subjects: Outsider art -- United States; African American folk art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Finding a place for the self-taught in the art world(s) / Charles Russell; title: Very like art: self-taught art from an ethological perspective / Ellen Dissanayake; title: The aesthetics of everyday life / Michael Owen Jones; title: Outsider art / Arthur C. Danto; title: The self in self-taught art / Roger Cardinal; title: Imagining the academy: "naive" art and the mainstream / Russel Bowman; title: Memory painting / Roger Cardinal; title: The one and the many: manifest destiny and the internal landscape / Randall Morris; title: Spiritual visions and allegory in contemporary African-American folk painting / Sharon Patton; title: African charm traditions remembered in the arts of the Americas / Maude Southwell Wahlman; title: The aesthetic language of self-taught art / Alison Weld.