Outsider Art
Outsider Art
Contesting Boundaries in Contemporary Culture
November 1997
Unavailable - out of print May 2000
Hardback
9780521581110
Out of Print
Hardback
Paperback
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.
- Leading contributors from sociology, art history, and arts administration cover visual art, theatre and dance
- Traces historical origins of contemporary art scene to major cultural shifts in modernist era
- Re-assesses what makes an art 'establishment' and attitudes to art and artists outside the mainstream
Product details
November 1997Hardback
9780521581110
232 pages
254 × 178 × 23 mm
0.6kg
40 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print May 2000
Table of 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.
