everyday genius frontispiece here Gary Alan Fine everyday g e n i u s Self-TaughtArt andtheCulture ofAuthenticity TheUniversityofChicagoPress ChicagoandLondon GaryAlanFineisprofessorofsociologyatNorthwesternUniversity. Heistheauthorofnineteenbooks,includingSharedFantasy:Role-Playing GamesasSocialWorlds(),WiththeBoys:LittleLeagueBaseball andPreadolescentCulture(),andDifficultReputations: CollectiveMemoriesoftheEvil,Inept,andControversial (),allpublishedbytheUniversityofChicagoPress. TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Ltd.,London ©byTheUniversityofChicago Allrightsreserved.Published PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica :---(cloth) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Fine,GaryAlan. Everydaygenius:self-taughtartandthecultureofauthenticity/GaryAlanFine. p. cm. :---(cloth:alk.paper) .Outsiderart—UnitedStates. .Art—Marketing. .Art—Expertising. I.Title. .. '.'—dc Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. To Bernice Estelle Tanz Fine – An unappreciated self-taught artist Contents ix xi 1 CreatingBoundaries 2 CreatingBiography 3 CreatingArtists 4 CreatingCollections 5 CreatingCommunity 6 CreatingMarkets 7 CreatingInstitutions 8 CreatingArt Worlds Illustrations HowardFinster GreatSpeckleBirdbyHowardFinster RamDassbyClydeAngel RobynBanks“TheBeaver”Beverland LeeGodie TwoPrinceCharmingsandLeebyLeeGodie AdolfWölfli HolySt.AdolfTowerbyAdolfWölfli HenryDarger Untitled(battlesceneduringlightningstorm;naked childrenwithrifles),byHenryDarger RoundedFormbythePhiladelphiaWireman AchillesRizzoli TheShaftofAscensionbyA.G.Rizzoli BillTraylor FiguresandConstructionwithBlueBorderbyBill Traylor LonnieHolley TheAncestorThroneNotStrongEnoughforNo RocknorNoCrackbyLonnieHolley EdgarTolson SodomandGomorrahbyEdgarTolson JimmyLeeSudduth HousebyJimmyLeeSudduth WilliamEdmondson LadywithMuff byWilliamEdmondson MinnieAdkinswithherworkCoyote
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