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343 Pages·2004·2.1 MB·English
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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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From Henry Darger's elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the Reverend Howard Finster, the work of outsider artists has achieved unique status in the art world. Celebrated for their lack of traditional training and their position on the fringes of society, o
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