Nonconformers
A New History of Self-taught Artists
Description:... Here I am: agency, awareness, and audience --Terminology: tastes, gates, labels, and suits --Part 1: 20th century origins and representations. --Chapter 1. --Modern primitives: MoMA exhibits the self-taught (1932-1944) --Once seen as modern /Katherine Jentleson --Artist focus: William Edmondson --Artist perspectives: Henri Rousseau, John Kane, Mirris Hirshfield, Horace Pippin, Pedro Lopez Cervántez --Chapter 2. --l'Art Brut: defining creative agency (1944-1966) --The origins of Art Brut, history and legacy /Sarah Lombardi --Artist focus: Aloïse Corbaz --Artist perspectives: Adolf Wölfli, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Augustin Lesage, Auguste Forestier, Marguerite Sirvins --Chapter 3. --Outsider art: the title that shapes a genre (1972-1979) --Roger Cardinal, the art of the artless /John Maizels --Artist focus: Madge Gill --Artist perspectives: Scottie Wilson, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Anna Zemánková, Johann Hauser, August Walla --Chapter 4. --Black folk art: presenting self-taught African American artists (1976-1982) --What it was, Black folk art in America /Cheryl Finley --Artist focus: Bill Trayor --Artist perspectives: Joseph E. Yoakum, Elijah Pierce, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sam Doyle --Part 2: Disparate boundaries. --Chapter 5. --Clandestine: exploring privacy, intimacy, and isolation in creativity --Portals of the imagination /Michael Bonesteel --Artist focus: Henry Darger --Artist perspectives: James Castle, Charles A.A. Dellschau, Melvin Way, Guo Fengyi, Emery Blagdon --Chapter 6. --Renegades: persona and messaging in art practice --The original renegade(s) /Phillip March Jones --Artist focus: Lee Godie --Artist perspectives: Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Prophet Royal Robertson, Kwame Akoto, Horst Ademeit --Chapter 7. --Environments: changing personal and public surroundings --Singular spaces/authentic visions /Jo Farb Hernández --Artist focus: Nek Chand --Artist perspectives: Helen Martins, Prophet Isaiah Robertson, Huang Yong-Fu, Josep Pujiula i Vila, Niki de Saint Phalle --Chapter 8. --Ability: advocating for artistic development --Shifting focus, a brief history of disability art in global contexts /Tom di Maria --Artist focus: Judith Scott --Artist perspectives: Julian Martin, Andrew Omoding, Julia Krause-Harder, Walter Mika, Tomoyuki Shinki --Part 3: Compositions. --Chapter 9. --Abstraction: beyond representation --Alternative expressions /Lisa Slominski --Artist interview; George Widener, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos --Artist perspectives: Hilma af Klint, Janet Sobel, Thornton Dial, Nnena Kalu, Junko Yamamoto --Chapter 10: --Landscapes: documenting the real and the imagined --Seeing scenes /Lisa Slominski --Artist interview: Mamadou Cissé, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos --Artist perspectives: Grandma Moses, Martín Ramírez, Minnie Evans, Katsuyoshi Takenaka, Katsuhiro Terao --Chapter 11. --Figuration: memory reproduction, and documentation --Close encounters /Lisa Slominski --Artist interview: William Scott, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos --Artist perspectives: Shinchi Sawada, Davood Koochaki, Helen Rae, Carlo Zinelli, Chéri Samba.
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