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Art with a difference : looking at difficulty and unfamiliarity art / Leonard Diepeveen, and Timothy Van Laar

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2001Description: xi, 132 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1559349301
  • 9781559349307
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 701.18 DIE
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Art museums
Organizer of Culture
The Remarkable Uniformity of museums
The Museums as an Organizer of Culture
Additional Values Promoted by Museums
The History of Art Museums
The The Canon
Exclusion from the Canon


Chapter 2. Western Art and Other Cultures
Encountering Difference
The Other
Is it Art?
Formalist and Anthropological Approaches
Problems with Formalist and Anthropological Approaches
Freedom from Western perspectives
Conclusion

Chapter 3. Outsider
Art Encountering Difference
Outsider Art Designed
Biography
Formal Qualities
Obsession
Categories
The Outsider Artist as other
Considering the Outsider Artist's Intentions
irony
Originality
Innocence
Experiencing Pleasure in Outsider Art
Importance
Amazement
Faux Naive Art
From the Outside to the Inside
Conclusion

Chapter 4. Art and Difficulty
Foucault's Nightmare
Difficulty Defined
Values of Difficulty
Visceral Difficulty
Living With Difficulty
Conclusion

Includes Index : p. 127 -132

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