![]() ![]() And Fine does deal with what happens when a hitherto isolated self-taught artist comes into contact with a representative of an artworld. ![]() This is a potentially fruitful way to look at art- Pierre Bourdieu and Howard Becker both famously studied the art world (indeed, their studies helped to define the "art world"), and both men's work is referenced by Fine in Everyday Genius. Fine looks at the world of folk/outsider/self-taught art from the point of view of a sociologist. This theory was received with the vast indifference that it probably deserves, but as I was researching some of the artists in Kindred Spirits, I came across mention of Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity (2004) by Gary Alan Fine. ![]() This is a type of artwork that is quite dear to me, and it my review of Kindred Spirits, I proposed a theory that this kind of artwork didn't "become art" until "discovered" by someone who has enough artworld credibility to declare it to be art. Now there is One of a Kind: Artwork from the Collection of Stephanie Smither at the Art League. First there was Kindred Spirits at the Art Car Museum. ![]()
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