Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk
art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular a
art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the
late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider
Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular a
Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk
Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular a
Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize
vernacular artart.
Originally employed as a linguistics term,
vernacular is now broadly applied to categories of culture, standing in for «regional,» «folkloric,» or «homemade» — concepts that contemporary artists have investigated since the
late 1950s as part of a deeper consideration of the relationship between
art and everyday life.
Originally employed as a linguistics term,
vernacular is now broadly applied to categories of culture, standing in for «regional,» «folkloric,» or «homemade» - concepts that contemporary artists have investigated since the
late 1950s as part of a deeper consideration of the relationship between
art and everyday life.