The last folk hero
Subtitle: a true story of race and art, power and profit
By: Andrew Dietz
Publisher: Ellis Lane Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780977196807
Subjects: Art and society; Art and race; Politics in art; African American artists; Artists; African American art; Biography
Description: The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race. Following the interaction between Dial, an illiterate factory worker with creative genius, his comrade-in-arts Holley, and Bill Arnett, a wealthy, white, and infamous art patron, this account details the obsessions and exploitations found in the soap-opera world of modern art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-373).