Outliers and American Vanguard Art

Outliers and American Vanguard Art /

Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican...

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Contributor: Cooke, Lynne (Author)
Edition:1st edition.
Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Chicago ; London : National Gallery of Art ; the University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Outsider art > United States > Exhibitions.
Art, American > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Folk art > United States > History > Exhibitions.
Art and society > United States > History > Exhibitions.
Art, American.
Art and society.
Folk art.
Outsider art.
United States.
1800-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword / Earl A. Powell III
  • Lenders to the exhibition
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note to the reader
  • Boundary trouble : Navigating margin and mainstream / Lynne Cooke
  • Modernism's war on terror / Darby English
  • How to make a modern primitive / Richard Meyer
  • Find-and-seek : Discovery narratives, Americanization, and other tales of genius in modern American folk art / Jennifer Jane Marshall
  • Black folk art redux : A curatorial roundtable / Lynne Cooke, John Beardsley, Katherine Jentleson. Faheem Majeed
  • Museums, oh museums / Thomas J. Lax
  • Affinities in abstraction : Textiles, otherness, paintings in the 1970's / Jenni Sorkin
  • Archives of femininity / Douglas Crimp
  • Personal voyages / Suzanne Hudson
  • Plates : c.1924 to 1943 : Folk aesthetics refigured
  • c.1968 to 1992 : Commensurables and incommensurables
  • c.1998 to 2013 : Determining difference differently
  • Biographies
  • Checklist of the exhibition
  • Index.

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