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Title Outsider art : contesting boundaries in contemporary culture / edited by Vera L. Zolberg and Joni Maya Cherbo
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Cambridge cultural social studies
Cambridge cultural social studies.
Contents 1. Asylum art: the social construction of an aesthetic category / Anne E. Bowler -- 2. The centrality of marginality: naive artists and savvy supporters / Steven C. Dubin -- 3. African legacies, American realities: art and artists on the edge / Vera L. Zoberg -- 4. Art production and artists' careers: the transition from "outside" to "inside" / Henry C. Finney -- 5. Pop Art: Ugly duckling to swan / Joni Maya Cherbo -- 6. Playing with fire: institutionalizing the artist at Kostabi World / Andras Szanto -- 7. Outside art and insider artists: gauging public reactions to contemporary public art / Nathalie Heinich -- 8. Arts 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 -- 11. Colleges and companies: early modern dance in the United States / Leila Sussmann
1. Asylum art: the social construction of an aesthetic category / Anne E. Bowler -- 2. The centrality of marginality: naive artists and savvy supporters / Steven C. Dubin -- 3. African legacies, American realities: art and artists on the edge / Vera L. Zoberg -- 4. Art production and artists' careers: the transition from "outside" to "inside" / Henry C. Finney -- 5. Pop Art: Ugly duckling to swan / Joni Maya Cherbo --6. Playing with fire: institutionalizing the artist at Kostabi World / Andras Szanto -- 7. Outside art and insider artists: gauging public reactions to contemporary public art / Nathalie Heinich -- 8. Arts 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 -- 11. Colleges and companies: early modern dance in the United States / Leila Sussmann
12. How many did it take to tango? Voyages of urban culture in the early 1900s / Juan E. Corradi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Arts and society -- History -- 20th century.
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
Outsider art.
Author Cherbo, Joni Maya, 1941-
Zolberg, Vera L.
LC no. 96052184
ISBN 0521581117 (hardback)
0521589215 (paperback)