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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"outsider art"”.
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Perceptions and experiences of selected participants engaging with a digitally curated environmental Outsider Art collection
… Environment, which falls into the ambit of Outsider Art, is a largely unprecedented practice, especially in the context of South Africa. This qualitative study is situated in a social constructivist paradigm and uses elements of a phenomenological approach. As an instance of qualitative …
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Looking Through the Trees: An Anthropologist, a Museum, and the Sasquatch
… it can contribute to the larger museum world, particularly through the ideas of Outsider Art and serious leisure. By evaluating the processes, exhibits, and procedures of the Sasquatch Outpost a clearer picture of current amateur museum practices can be drawn.</p>
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"Does Your Faith in God and Country Need a Boost?" Reflections of Idealism and Identity and the Art of Bill John Roth
The life and art of Bill John Roth offer a paradox to the study of folklore and folk art. The personal and public nature of Bill's art is exemplified through his mural Geographic Hieroglyphics In God's Own Handwriting. On the surface the art and artist are seemingly detached from the community, but …
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An Examination of American Sideshow Banners as Folk Art, ca. 1920-1960
… by exploring the extent to which American folk art painting scholarship, methodologies, and objects can be used to articulate the meaning and significance of banner painting. This study expands the disciplinary treatment of banner painting by introducing domesticated art as a means of …