Outsider art: contesting boundaries in contemporary culture

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Introduction Part I. Traditional Outsiders: 1. Asylum art: the social construction of an aesthetic category Anne E. Bowler 2. The centrality of marginality: naive artists and savvy supporters Steve C. Dubin 3. African legacies, American realities: art and artists on the edge Vera L. Zolberg Part II. Career Strategies of Outsiders: 4. Art production and artistic careers: the transition from 'outside' to 'inside' Henry C. Finney 5. Pop art: ugly duckling to swan Joni Maya Cherbo 6. Playing with fire: institutionalising the artist at Kostabi World Andras Szanto 7. Outsider art and insider artists: gauging public reactions to contemporary public art Nathalie Heinich Part III. Living in the Cracks: 8. Art 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 Part IV. Genre Switching: 11. Colleges and companies: early modern dance in America Leila Sussman 12. How many does it take to tango? Voyages of urban culture in the early 1900s Juan E. Corradi.

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