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Outsider art : contesting boundaries in contemporary culture / edited by Vera L. Zolberg and Joni Maya Cherbo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge cultural social studiesPublisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521581117
  • 9780521581110
  • 0521589215
  • 9780521589215
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.9045 21
LOC classification:
  • NX456 .O92 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Traditional Outsiders: -- 1. Asylum art: the social construction of an aesthetic category / Anne E. Bowler -- 2. The centrality of marginality: naive artists and savvy supporters / Steve C. Dubin -- 3. African legacies, American realities: art and artists on the edge / Vera L. Zolberg -- Part II. Career Strategies of Outsiders: -- 4. Art production and artistic careers: the transition from 'outside' to 'inside' / Henry C. Finney -- 5. Pop art: ugly duckling to swan / Joni Maya Cherbo -- 6. Playing with fire: institutionalising the artist at Kostabi World / Andras Szanto -- 7. Outsider art and insider artists: gauging public reactions to contemporary public art / Nathalie Heinich -- Part III. Living in the Cracks: -- 8. Art as social service: theatre for the forgotten / Judy Levine -- 9. Multiculturalism in process: Italo-Australian bilingual theatre and its audiences / Maria Shevtsova -- 10. In the empire of the object: the geographies of Ana Mendieta / Irit Rogoff -- Part IV. Genre Switching: -- 11. Colleges and companies: early modern dance in America / Leila Sussman -- 12. How many does it take to tango? Voyages of urban culture in the early 1900s / Juan E. Corradi.
Summary: "Today, the arts are characterised by an unprecedented openness to new possibilities, a shifting of established genres, a melding of unlikely forms, and far greater inclusiveness. How then, without an art world establishment with authority over artistic outcomes, do we determine what constitutes art, and make substantive judgements about different artistic works? Outsider Art explores the historical roots of this post-modern condition and analyses the processes of attaining artistic recognition. Leading sociologists, art historians, policy-makers, and artists themselves examine cases from the performing and the visual arts, each contributes exemplifying aspects, stages and strategies of artistic transformation."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Traditional Outsiders: -- 1. Asylum art: the social construction of an aesthetic category / Anne E. Bowler -- 2. The centrality of marginality: naive artists and savvy supporters / Steve C. Dubin -- 3. African legacies, American realities: art and artists on the edge / Vera L. Zolberg -- Part II. Career Strategies of Outsiders: -- 4. Art production and artistic careers: the transition from 'outside' to 'inside' / Henry C. Finney -- 5. Pop art: ugly duckling to swan / Joni Maya Cherbo -- 6. Playing with fire: institutionalising the artist at Kostabi World / Andras Szanto -- 7. Outsider art and insider artists: gauging public reactions to contemporary public art / Nathalie Heinich -- Part III. Living in the Cracks: -- 8. Art as social service: theatre for the forgotten / Judy Levine -- 9. Multiculturalism in process: Italo-Australian bilingual theatre and its audiences / Maria Shevtsova -- 10. In the empire of the object: the geographies of Ana Mendieta / Irit Rogoff -- Part IV. Genre Switching: -- 11. Colleges and companies: early modern dance in America / Leila Sussman -- 12. How many does it take to tango? Voyages of urban culture in the early 1900s / Juan E. Corradi.

"Today, the arts are characterised by an unprecedented openness to new possibilities, a shifting of established genres, a melding of unlikely forms, and far greater inclusiveness. How then, without an art world establishment with authority over artistic outcomes, do we determine what constitutes art, and make substantive judgements about different artistic works? Outsider Art explores the historical roots of this post-modern condition and analyses the processes of attaining artistic recognition. Leading sociologists, art historians, policy-makers, and artists themselves examine cases from the performing and the visual arts, each contributes exemplifying aspects, stages and strategies of artistic transformation."--Publisher description.

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