LEADER 04354nam 22007214a 450 001 9910458631703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-77571-5 010 $a9786612775710 010 $a0-226-24960-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226249605 035 $a(CKB)2560000000016433 035 $a(EBL)584936 035 $a(OCoLC)664571301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000417295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291432 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10361689 035 $a(PQKB)10010447 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777235 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12361176 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777235 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10756412 035 $a(PQKB)11359351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC584936 035 $a(DE-B1597)524778 035 $a(OCoLC)697282238 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226249605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL584936 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10417005 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277571 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000016433 100 $a20031017d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEveryday genius$b[electronic resource] $eself-taught art and the culture of authenticity /$fGary Alan Fine 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-24951-4 311 $a0-226-24950-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-319) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Creating Boundaries -- $t2. Creating Biography -- $t3. Creating Artists -- $t4. Creating Collections -- $t5. Creating Community -- $t6. Creating Markets -- $t7. Creating Institutions -- $t8. Creating Art Worlds -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom 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, outsider artists nonetheless participate in a traditional network of value, status, and money. After spending years immersed in the world of self-taught artists, Gary Alan Fine presents Everyday Genius, one of the most insightful and comprehensive examinations of this network and how it confers artistic value. Fine considers the differences among folk art, outsider art, and self-taught art, explaining the economics of this distinctive art market and exploring the dimensions of its artistic production and distribution. Interviewing dealers, collectors, curators, and critics and venturing into the backwoods and inner-city homes of numerous self-taught artists, Fine describes how authenticity is central to the system in which artists-often poor, elderly, members of a minority group, or mentally ill-are seen as having an unfettered form of expression highly valued in the art world. Respected dealers, he shows, have a hand in burnishing biographies of the artists, and both dealers and collectors trade in identities as much as objects. Revealing the inner workings of an elaborate and prestigious world in which money, personalities, and values affect one another, Fine speaks eloquently to both experts and general readers, and provides rare access to a world of creative invention-both by self-taught artists and by those who profit from their work. "Indispensable for an understanding of this world and its workings. . . . Fine's book is not an attack on the Outsider Art phenomenon. But it is masterful in its anatomization of some of its contradictions, conflicts, pressures, and absurdities."-Eric Gibson, Washington Times 606 $aOutsider art$zUnited States 606 $aArt$xMarketing 606 $aArt$xExpertising 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOutsider art 615 0$aArt$xMarketing. 615 0$aArt$xExpertising. 676 $a709/.04/07 700 $aFine$b Gary Alan$0870320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458631703321 996 $aEveryday genius$92088710 997 $aUNINA