Self-Taught Art
Subtitle: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781578063802
Subjects: Outsider art; Folk & Outsider Art; Black Art; Folk Arts; Art & Art Instruction; American - General; Art; United States; Fine Arts; African American folk art
First sentence: The fine art world has never been able to respond adequately to the work of self-taught artists-those individuals who have no academic artistic training and little connection to the mainstream traditions of Western art history, but whose works have undeniable aesthetic impact.