Designed as a supplementary text for beginning art courses, this brief, inexpensive text introduces issues that are typically overlooked in standard art survey texts, such as the role of the museum in creating the canon, ways to understand art of other cultures and outsider art, and the difficulty many beginners have in understanding art, especially contemporary art.
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This short and very readable book helps the intelligent but uninitiated reader come to terms with works of art that can be confusing, or even intimidating. Art can be daunting if it comes from a culture different from our own, is the work of "outsider" artists, or -- as with most contemporary art -- is deliberately obscure, or "difficult," in some way. The authors don't attempt to supply pat answers to the questions "is this art?" and "what does this mean?" but they help the readers to frame additional questions that can lead them to their own better understandings of these objects.I definitely will assign this book in my course on writing and critical thinking for art history majors. This summer term, I also plan to experiment with using it as a recommended, supplemental text in my art history survey.
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outsider art, tribal works, naive artist, difficult art, formal values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Color Plate, Los Angeles, Les Demoiselles, The Death of Sardanapalus, Armory Show, Jackson Pollock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Reverend Howard Finster, Ann Hamilton, Henry Darger, Sally Price, United States, Artists Rights Society, Chief Illiniwek, Duchamp's Fountain, Experiencing Pleasure, Hollis Sigler, Outsider Aesthetic, Pablo Picasso, Parallel Visions, Sigmar Polke, The Artist Outsider, Additional Values Promoted, Albert Lohnes New!
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outsider art, tribal works, naive artist, difficult art, formal values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Color Plate, Los Angeles, Les Demoiselles, The Death of Sardanapalus, Armory Show, Jackson Pollock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Reverend Howard Finster, Ann Hamilton, Henry Darger, Sally Price, United States, Artists Rights Society, Chief Illiniwek, Duchamp's Fountain, Experiencing Pleasure, Hollis Sigler, Outsider Aesthetic, Pablo Picasso, Parallel Visions, Sigmar Polke, The Artist Outsider, Additional Values Promoted, Albert Lohnes New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Sigmar Polke by Peter Sloterdijk on page 6, page 118, and page 119
- Keith Haring by Elisabeth Sussman on page 89, and page 111
- Has Modernism Failed? by Suzi Gablik on page 105, and page 116
- Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art by Maurice Tuchman on page 71, and page 73
- Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (Re Visions (London, England)) by Carol Duncan on page 19, and page 21
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- The Difficulties of Modernism by Leona Diepeveen in Back Cover
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